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1. Time-Lapse Reading as Critical Performance

   In moving texts, such as digital kinetic poetry, the reader-user might no longer control the duration of their reading, unlike the traditional and static nature of printed texts. The user deals with readable time versus executable time, the human time-line versus the machine time-line. By having an imposed and fixed number of milliseconds to perceive the text on the screen, the user might find themselves completing or imagining the unread text, following the dynamic forms with an imposed dynamic content. Yet, to understand the shifting reading patterns of digital poems, one has to consider another methods or tools that may complement traditional models. Therefore, performing a critical approach solely based in close reading methods might not accomplish a fully comprehensible reading of digital poetry. In this sense, following upon methods taken from other areas, e.g. time-lapse photography and R. Luke DuBois’s concept of “time-lapse phonography” (2011), I introduce the notion of time-lapse reading as a complementary layer to close reading.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 07.11.2014 - 19:51

2. Roundtable: Chercheur et artiste / artiste et chercheur, de l’art de jongler avec les casquettes

   A roundtable organized by Lucile Haute at the Galerie Rhinocéros et Cie in Paris on November 13, 2014, posing three questions to each author.

   Alvaro Seica - 14.11.2014 - 17:18

3. Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks

   The term ‘writing coastlines’ implies a double meaning. The word ‘writing’ refers both to the act of writing and to that which is written. The act of writing translates aural, physical, mental and digital processes into marks, actions, utterances, and speech-acts. The intelligibility of that which is written is intertwined with both the context of its production and of its consumption. The term ‘writing coastlines’ may refer to writing about coastlines, but the coastlines themselves are also writing insofar as they are translating physical processes into marks and actions. Coastlines are the shifting terrains where land and water meet, always neither land nor water and always both. The physical processes enacted by waves and winds may result in marks and actions associated with both erosion and accretion. Writing coastlines are edges, ledges, legible lines caught in the double bind of simultaneously writing and erasing. These in-between places are liminal spaces, both points of departure and sites of exchange. One coastline implies another, implores a far shore. The dialogue implied by this entreaty intrigues me.

   J. R. Carpenter - 22.11.2014 - 21:44

4. Poetry and Stuff: A Review of '#!'

   In this essay John Cayley reviews Nick Montfort’s #!, a book of computer generated poetry and the code that generated it. Exploring the triangle of Montfort’s programs, the machines that read them, and the output presented for human readers, Cayley situates the experience of reading and writing as intrinsically virtual, powered by its sustained potentiality, rather than its definitive comprehension. (Source: ebr)

   Alvaro Seica - 02.02.2015 - 17:25

5. Digital Poetry

   Digital poetry is a practice made possible by digital media and technologies. A genre of electronic literature, it is also know as electronic poetry or e-poetry. The technologies that shape digital media are diverse, are rapidly evolving, and can be used to such different effects that the term has expanded to encompass a large number of practices.

   (Source: Author's Introduction)

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 03.02.2015 - 13:09

6. E-CyberDigital Poetry: To Grasp or to Build a Genre Identity through a Term’s Choice?

   In recent years, the field of digital poetry had at least three major critical monographs
   discussing the genre and its state-of-the-art. Loss Pequeño Glazier (2002), Brian Kim
   Stefans (2003) and Christopher T. Funkhouser (2007) have not only introduced new
   critical perspectives, but have also discussed the genre’s problematic definition and its
   denominations’ variety: e-poetry, cyberpoetry and digital poetry.
   Considering Theo Lutz’s Stochastische Texte (1959) as the first work of
   programmable poetry, one should note the genre’s long history of practice in spite of
   its shorter history of critical writing. Therefore, the way authors have been coining
   and defining the genre itself claims for a theorization standpoint and helps shaping the
   field towards a specific path and perhaps a crystalized historical construction.
   Do the referenced terms position their authors in a similar flow of thought? By
   following a concept’s trajectory and the author’s choice, one must consider the fact
   that its crystallization will shape future critical writing. In this sense, it is important to
   

   Alvaro Seica - 04.02.2015 - 19:09

7. Early Digital Art and Writing

   Decades before digital art and writing became widely transmitted and accessed online, pioneers in these expressive fields relied predominantly on sponsored exhibitions of their work. Prior to the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW), computer-based practitioners desiring to share their compositions - and audiences interested in these contemporary developments - depended on a small number of sympathetic museums and galleries that promoted such innovations. In the 1960s and early 1970s, these exhibits tended to unite experiments produced by both digital writers and artists. Gradually, as electronic arts expanded in a way that digital writing would not until the proliferation of personal computing and global networks in the 1990s, subsequent exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly featured graphical rather than language-oriented works. The arts, historically familiar with formal shifts in media in ways that literature was not, quickly responded to the calling of computerized machinery; writers more gradually adapted to digital possibilities.

   (Source: Author's introduction)

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 06.02.2015 - 12:30

8. Digital Arena: On 'New Directions in Digital Poetry' — Chris Funkhouser

   Synthetic in essence and brittle in terms of longevity, digital poetry’s fluid states prevent us from considering works as being plastic. Yet since they are never completely fixed, works of digital poetry always maintain plasticity in presentation on the WWW. They exist in a state of being molded, receiving shape, made to assume many forms – often seeking qualities that depict space and form so as to appear multi-dimensionally.

   C.T. Funkhouser’s lecture “On 'New Directions in Digital Poetry'” recounts the challenges and process of preparing a scholarly edition focusing on the pursuit of fully – and usefully – capturing the dynamics of this ever-changing genre. As poetry becomes a networked form, its poetics explodes and singular measurements of its pliancy resist finite definition. Recognizing plasticity as an aesthetic foundation establishes a valuable metaphor for generally qualifying the results of electronic writing to date, “On 'New Directions in Digital Poetry'” explicitly stems from Funkhouser’s experience teaching Electronic Literature courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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   Alvaro Seica - 19.02.2015 - 15:38

9. Infopoesia ou Poesia Informacional

   "Infopoesia ou Poesia Informacional" [Infopoetry or Informational Poetry] was published on October 29, 1987, in the Diário de Lisboa, in the supplement “Ler Escrever.”

   This benchmark article helped defining the state-of-the-art of “computational poetry,” by exposing the 1960s creative threads in the works by Nanni Balestrini, Herberto Helder, Margaret Masterman and Marc Adrian, and by additionally introducing new Portuguese and Brazilian authors, such as Pedro Barbosa, Silvestre Pestana, Antero de Alda, Erthos Albino de Souza and João Coelho. Furthermore, it disseminated for a general audience the relevance of computational programming in literary creation, by stressing that, for some authors, “a própria programação [é] o acto de criação poética por excelência, sendo o programa um poema” [the very programming (is) the act of poetic creation par excellence, being the program a poem], which facilitates different outputs.

   [Source: Álvaro Seiça, "A Luminous Beam: Reading the Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection" (2015)]

   Alvaro Seica - 05.03.2015 - 12:12

10. 'Roda Lume' by E. M. de Melo e Castro

    Roda Lume is a 2’ 43’’ videopoem, which was broadcast by the Rádio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP) in 1969 and subsequently destroyed by the station itself, and was reenacted by Melo e Castro from the original storyboard in 1986. The work is indeed surprising, as a poem that overlaps text, kinetic text, image, moving image and sound, anticipating and influencing various genres of digital hypermedia poetry mainly launched after the birth of the World Wide Web. It constructs a different notion of space-time, opening a “visual time” (Melo e Castro 1993: 238) of unfolding images and text that comprises a new reading perception.

    (Source: Author's text)

    Alvaro Seica - 07.04.2015 - 17:00

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