The Magpie's Nest

Dancing Across Media | Religion, Remediated | The Magpie's Nest

“The Magpie's Nest” is a review essay exploring the possibilities of webtext form for reviewing webtext scholarship. It is a companion piece to a print essay reviewing the same three focal webtexts and deliberately takes a more experimental approach than its alphabetic counterpart. The webtext uses the metaphor of a magpie as thief and collector of shiny objects to perform a critical reading through sampling and arranging media elements from the three reviewed projects. The project consists of a mix of sampled image, video, and alphabetic files, combined with illustrated elements created in Affinity Designer. All elements were coded into a blank template with HTML and CSS in Aptana Studio.