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1 Gluteoplasty i "create", David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 Breast Augmentation David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 Lip Filler i "today is for", David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 Rhinoplasty i "she", David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 Blepharoplasty David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 This Is Not a Body David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 sequence poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 27 no. 2 2023;
1 Writing with the Australian Archive : Digital Posthuman Approaches to Australian Literature David Thomas Henry Wright , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 10 August vol. 23 no. 1 2023;

Author's note: 'Research Background
This practice-led research was written as part of a broader project into digital literary creative practice. This project explores the process of creating digital-born literature, i.e. works that depend on a computer to exist. It uses Italo Calvino’s Six memos for the Next Millennium as a means to produce digital literary works that renegotiate text and images through recombinant poetics.

'Research Contribution
Building upon Natalie Harkin’s concept of archival-poetics, this work employs digital literary techniques to interrogate and navigate the Australian archive. The ‘icastic’ image of the camel is used to lighten and quickly navigate the posthuman weight of the archive. Following text-image practitioners such as W.G. Sebald and Ross Gibson, the initial ‘static’ work is reimagined using curatorial software, augmented reality, and recombinant poetics. This makes a contribution to both Australian archival studies and Australia digital literary practice.

'Research Significance
The significance of this work is its use of the icastic image as a prismatic symbol to navigate the posthuman weight of the archive. If the archive is both problematic and posthuman, then such creative research techniques are requisite. Traditional scholarly approaches are limited, so the implementation of creative practice that employs Calvino’s values and digital technologies are necessary to interrogate the archive and address the ‘grave consequences’ (Derrida’s proviso) that result from challenging the processes by which the archive has been established.' (Publication abstract)

1 [The Future of the Humanities in Australia] or; On {On Generosity, National Press Club Address} i "A microcredential participation misalignment", David Thomas Henry Wright , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 66)
1 Collaboration and Authority in Electronic Literature David Thomas Henry Wright , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 59 2020;
'This paper explores collaborative processes in electronic literature. Specifically, it examines writer authority as it applies to text, code, and other media. By drawing from cinematic auteur theory, Mitchell’s Picture Theory (1994), Said’s Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975), Cayley’s Grammalepsy (2018), and Flores’s (2019) generational approach to digital literature, this paper highlights unique issues that arise in the creative collaborative production of digital literary works, and the influence these processes have on how these works are ‘read’. The creative processes employed in Montfort, Rettberg, and Carpenter’s respective Taroko Gorge, Tokyo Garage, and Gorge (2009), Jhave’s ReRites (2017–2018), and Luers, Smith, and Dean’s novelling (2016)), as well as reflections on the author’s own collaborative creative experiences (Paige and Powe (2017) with Lowry and Lane, Little Emperor Syndrome (2018) with Arnold, and V[R]erses (2019–) with Breeze) are explored in detail. From these analyses, this paper concludes that in digital literary practices code should be regarded as a meta-authority that denotes authority to specific components of the work. A better understanding of these complexities as they apply to attribution is emphasised in the future development of digital literary creative practice and education.' (Publication abstract)
1 A Selflessly Evacuated Spirit i "Everyone faced disease duties:", David Thomas Henry Wright , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
Author's note: The following was computer-generated by a Javascript poetry generator inputted with the transcript of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronavirus Speech, addressed to the United Kingdom on April 5th, 2020. It was then human-edited
1 From Twitterbots to VR : 10 of the Best Examples of Digital Literature David Thomas Henry Wright , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 July 2019;

'These days all text is digital. From writing an email to publishing a new edition of War and Peace, text nearly always exists on a computer first. Yet there are writers who take full advantage of the computer’s possibilities, utilising new technologies to broach complex subject matter.' (Introduction)

1 ヴェブレン OK (The Veblen Good) David Thomas Henry Wright , 2019 single work multimedia prose
— Appears in: Griffith Review , 30 April no. 64 2019;
1 Unlabelled Bottles David Thomas Henry Wright , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 62)
1 Gross National Happiness David Thomas Henry Wright , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2019;
1 y separately published work icon Prose Fiction in the Current Millennium : Reading and Writing Italo Calvino’s Six Memos David Thomas Henry Wright , Perth : 2018 16082283 2018 single work thesis

'In 1985 Italo Calvino wrote a series of lectures (later published as ‘memos) in which he proposed five values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, ‘crystal’ exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. This creative thesis addresses Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium in three ways. First, the rise of these values within the Calvino corpus is explored, including Calvino’s creative theoretical approach used in Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Second, Calvino’s values are reimagined in relation to contemporary literature and context. As Calvino’s memos address the current millennium, this thesis responds from the current millennium by contrasting the memos with recent works that can be read as exhibiting Calvino’s values and their binary opposites (i.e. weight, lingering, ‘flame’exactitude, ephemerality, and singularity). Third, Calvino’s memos are explored through creative practice by applying Calvino,s memos to produce five fictional works: The Perfect Democracy, Executive Chairman’s Letter to the Shareholders (a sample of the larger work Paige & Powe), 뻐꾸기 (a sample of the larger work Little Emperor Syndrome), Unlabelled Bottles, and Las Artes Hypnóticas (2022). The creative works serve as a conclusion, as evidence of the relevance Calvino’s memos have in addressing the predicaments in contemporary literature addressed in the theoretical portion of this thesis. This thesis examines each of Calvino’s memos in the various forms that contemporary prose fiction has taken. As the current millennium has been defined as an age of ‘too much’(i.e. too many subjects and issues to examine, too many potential associations to make, too many competing voices to vii represent, too many forms of competing media, and too many potential readers and readings to account for), this thesis examines how this has impacted contemporary fiction:

(a) The values of weight and lightness are explored in the ‘Maximalist’ novel (as defined by Stefano Ercolino);

(b) The values of quickness and lingering are explored in contemporary digital literature (i.e. prose fiction that is ‘digital born’);

(c) The values of crystal and flame exactitude are explored in the contemporary use of ‘stream-of-consciousness’ prose and interpretations of the ‘ideal text;

(d) The values of visibility, ephemerality, and ekphrastic strategy are explored in multimedial prose fiction; and

(e) The values of multiplicity and singularity are explored in contemporary encyclopaedic fiction, paranoid fiction, and the ‘novel of information multiplicity’ (as defined by John Johnston).'

Source: Abstract.

1 Camel F David Thomas Henry Wright , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 6 2018; (p. 83-87)
1 Living with Walruses David Thomas Henry Wright , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Pigface and Other Stories : Margaret River Press Short Story Competition 2018 2018;
1 Self-Aware Self-Censorship As Form David Thomas Henry Wright , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Electronic Book Review , May 2018;

'A dedicated, elaborated thought stream from an author who, like McElroy, has read and thought about  the presence of censorship (as theme and experience) in novels by Ross Gibson, Shariar Mandinipour,J. .M. Coetzee, W. G. Sebald, Mark Z Danielewski, Italo Calvino, and Fernando Pessoa. Author David Thomas Henry Wright explores the (loss of) authority of the literary novel in a time of “networked glut” while at the same time seeking trans-national, trans-historical, photographic, multi-medial and inter-generational “alliances”  that might redress contemporary censorship and “deeply shape (or erode) contemporary literature.”'

Source: Abstract.

1 Growling Cockatoos and Hopeful Swastikas : Les Wicks' Getting By Not Fitting In David Thomas Henry Wright , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2018;

— Review of Getting By Not Fitting In Les Wicks , 2016 selected work poetry
1 The State of Australian Reality : Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories David Thomas Henry Wright , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2017;

— Review of The Permanent Resident Roanna Gonsalves , 2016 selected work short story ; Inexperience and Other Stories Anthony Macris , 2016 selected work short story
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