Origins and influences
''Shan Shuis author, Chen Qian Xun, is a media artist and researcher who has traveled to many countries and is passionate about learning languages. She is passionate about studying digital technology and language to express art. ''Shan shui'' was her first work. This experimental work provided experience for her subsequent productions.Publication history
This work was originally published in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action, Issue 14, in Fall 2014. It was subsequently collected during the winter byGenre and programming
This digital work combines images and language with coding. The work used JavaScript and was published on a website. The poem is a generative one, wher the computer generates poems in Wujue (五绝), a format that provides four lines of five syllables following certain tonal constraints.Literary significance and critical reception
LICHENG XIE in If DeLillo was an E-Lit Writer: DeLillo's Language as Visual Art in the Digital Age cites ''Shan Shui'' as an example to show the image features of natural language. Random arrangements of poems and background images are combined into a variety of meaningful landscape paintings, making the language part of the background image. He believes that this work highlights the relationship between language and image, and shows the "reshapable" characteristics of language in pictures. In Beauty in code - 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages, Author David Wright also use this work as an example in his visual verse. Poets have combined poetry and images for centuries. While poets of the past would use sculpture and poetry together, contemporary poets can use digital technology for the same purpose. ''shan shui'' is regarded as a symbol of the combination of poetry and digital coding. Zijun Wang contents that the use of background images as part of the meaning of the piece qualify this piece as electronic poetry as well asReferences
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