Work

Title

W8ING

Author

Sophia Le Fraga

Date

2014

Description

W8ING is a reworking of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1949). Employing the iPhone's screen as a stage, the play is performed by sending messages that include emojis and textual shortcuts.

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URL

vimeo.com/84740600

Medium

Video

Publisher

Gauss PDF

Technology

SMS, Emoji

Platform

iPhone

Download

dl.gauss-pdf.com/GPDF093-SLF-W.mov (48.3mb)

Source Materials

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1949)

Event

Poetry will be made by all! at Luma Foundation, Zurich. From 30 January to 30 May 2014. URL: vimeo.com/87186829

Related

Meet the Artist Who Translated ‘Waiting for Godot’ into an iMessage Conversation” by Rob Walker, Yahoo Tech, April 28, 2014.

Keywords

digital, language, online, reading, remix, writing

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ID

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