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Elayne Zalis, PhD, has an interdisciplinary background in writing, communications, and the media arts. She explores media in transition, a range that encompasses film, video, print, digital arts, and the Web. Her recent work focuses on personal and cultural memory. ARELLA'S REPERTOIRE and VAGABOND SCRIBE (LEAH'S BACKSTORY) represent the fictional half of her quartet; the other books, VIDEO-GRAPHIC ALCHEMY: TRANSFORMING "DEAR DIARY" and VIRTUALDAYZ: REMEDIATED VISIONS & DIGITAL MEMORIES, are nonfiction. Contact her directly for inquiries about the fiction (ezalis23@gmail.com), or see her Web sites for additional background: The Memory Channel and VirtualDayz (blog).
Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming

Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary"Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming "Dear Diary" (book)

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VIDEO-GRAPHIC ALCHEMY: TRANSFORMING "DEAR DIARY" explains the unconventional methodology the author used to "compose" VAGABOND SCRIBE (LEAH’S BACKSTORY), a literary experiment she began in the late 1980s while under the spell of video art and emergent digital technologies. That literary experiment informed her approach to ARELLA’S REPERTOIRE, a novel she finished in 2007 that elaborates on and takes to new levels the earlier work of fiction. VIDEO-GRAPHIC ALCHEMY brings together her retrospective essay and the artistic, multimedia, and literary work from her personal repertoire that she references. The book includes reproductions of more than twenty color and black-and-white images.
VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories

VirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital MemoriesVirtualDayz: Remediated Visions & Digital Memories (book)

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This "blook" preserves the musings on media and memory that the author posted on her blog, VirtualDayz, from June 27, 2005, to July 15, 2006 (see http://www.virtualdayz.blogspot.com/). Selected images from her personal archives are displayed on the covers of the book.