ABSTRACT
The foundation of the work discussed here is provided by my own experience of informally learning some written and spoken Arabic. I applied this experience to the creative production of two innovative new media artworks: Postcard From Tunis (Pryor, 1997) and Postcards From Writing (Pryor, 2004). The artworks express an integrationist theory of communication, language and writing while also extending the theory into new media, in this case, interactive multimedia. The artworks creatively demonstrate that dynamic, multidimensional and refl exive signs can be created through human-computer interaction, particularly rollover interaction. These signs combine auditory, pictorial and scriptorial forms of communication and have great potential for language teaching and learning activities, particularly those involving reading new scripts.
