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Code and Language Arts

Codework is an interesting concept introduced by the readings. Codework seems to be something of its own language, as well as its own genre of digital language arts. It would be a large genre, admittedly, and would probably be needed to be parsed into subgenres, as explained in the reading. For example, Mezangelle is one kind of codework. It has its own linguistic structure that is normally followed, but does not have a specific literary structure to follow. But using Mezangelle assumes that what is being read is, in fact, a digital language art piece. It serves a very particular purpose, even if its usages and contextual meanings can vary.

I think the readings on codework and how linguistics can be applied to it really bring together what digital language arts means, at least in general. Digital language art does not need to be literary. It is really focused on manipulating language, which has so many different parts to play with, from phonology to morphology. It can also manipulate signs in ways that traditional art does not necessarily do by presenting the signifier and the signified in different ways which can lead to different interpretations of the sign that we would have had before.

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