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  1. Jim Rosenberg’s Diagram Poems Series #3: A Few Preliminary Notes on Translation Issues

    Jim Rosenberg’s Diagram Poems Series #3: A Few Preliminary Notes on Translation Issues

    Arnaud Regnauld - 05.03.2012 - 15:07

  2. Poetic Transformations in(to) the Digital

    In our contribution we will discuss some projects in the field of digital poetics which transform or recreate poetic pre-texts that were not conceived for the electronic space. Our interest is to focus on the question of the site of digital poetics, i.e., on its discursive or systemic affiliation. These projects of transformation imply a justification: We derive digital poetics not primarily from theories or discourses of information and communication technology or the digital media culture, but from theories and histories of poetry and “language art” itself. While doing so, we do not ignore that electronic or computer poetry is turning problems of the actual media and technological culture, as well as its theoretical description, into poetological and artistic categories and categorization. The perspective on art itself means, quoting from Loss Glazier (2004), “Siting the ‘poetry’ in e-poetry, which means to read digital poetics against its poetological and historical background.” The examples that will be discussed refer to the tradition and evolution of language art by means of intertextuality.

    Johannes Auer - 05.11.2012 - 17:56

  3. Trajectory of Electronic Poetry in Brazil: A Short History

    This paper aims at presenting some examples of a historical trajectory of Electronic Poetry in Brazil in basic three focuses: the milieu in which e-poetry had been developed, the first experiences in 70s and 80s, and the increased development since 1995, when artistic and poetry experiments started being made in WWW.

    Luciana Gattass - 08.11.2012 - 15:21

  4. The Virtualization of Poetry and Self

    As with other world-changing discoveries or events, the use of computers and the Web have contributed to the ‘virtualization’ of ‘the ideas domain’ of poetry. By virtualization it is assumed that something has been made virtual. But not virtual as understood by the scientists or by commerce or by the entertainment industry that see virtualization as the transferring of a function from one physical form to another, like a virtual surgery with patient and doctors in separate physical locations or a virtual on-line marketplace like eBay or a virtual terrain as in virtual reality (VR) games. The virtualization of poetry does not mean taking the function of poetry in print or in performance and transferring it to the web, although this can be and has been a result of the virtualization. The virtualization of poetry has meant that the ideas domain of poetry has been re-thought and new questions and problems posited as a result of the new digital technologies. It has also meant that new actualizations have been realized in media that were not available to the poet in the past.

    (Source: Author's abstract)

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 17:36

  5. What Spam Means to Network Situationism

    In this essay we describe and theorize upon a spam data set hidden in the source code of HTML pages at the Bureau of Public Secrets, a website housing English translations of the Situationist manifestos and communiqués.

    We attempt to build upon a fruitful coincidence: what happens when internet interventionists, “code taggers” on a lucrative Spam mission, meet interventionists of the analog era, Situationist "wall taggers”? The textuality of both groups is aimed at reaching efficiency in a networked structure, be it socially or algorithmically coded; both engage a material and performative inscription so as to activate their discourse (i.e. to make it more efficient).

    We witness the action of a mode of writing modeled on graffiti and following the Situationist axiom: “Slogans To Be Spread Now By Every Means.” By focusing on the comparable gesture of verbal propagation (slogans and spam lexicon as social viruses) and the instructional performativity of these texts, we trace a set of theories based on the fiction that Spammers and Situationists have appropriated one another’s tactics.

    (Source: Authors' introduction)

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 21:06

  6. Nam Shub – A Text Creation and Performance Environment

    Nam Shub is a tool and software art project for the creation, modification and performance of text oriented electronic art ranging from experimental literature to visual sound poetry performances or interactive art installations. The discussed project is the second version or rather a newly developed and enhanced version of HyperString which was presented at e-poetry 2005. This tool will be made available under an open source license in the future so that everybody can not only use but alter and expand it. 

    (Source: Author's abstract)

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 21:23

  7. Writing the World: Toward a Systems Approach to E-Writing

    Code – The Language of Our Time, new media poetics, and p0es1s. The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry, are three widely regarded collections dealing with e-writing and its code from a humanist perspective. As an indication of how emergent this field of study is, in the several essays and papers that treat computer program code in these works, almost no actual code is presented for analysis or as concrete examples of the abstractions that their authors discuss.

    This is altogether understandable. There was no aesthetic arc hovering over and guiding the transition from legacy print writing to e-writing. In fact there was virtually no transition. Ewriting was suddenly there (here). And its foundation, program code, was an immediate fact that few students of literature had been trained to understand. Before they could, a framework had to be built within which this new literature, whose tools of craft are so obscure and esoteric, could be reasoned about and judged. Program code problematizes literary study at its very essence—at the act of creation.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 21:39

  8. Digital Word in a Palm: Digital Poetry between Reading and immersive Bodily Experience

    Poetry’s traditional role as the lyric atmospheres and projective saying provider is fundamentally being challenged by information technologies that are able to create their own particular atmospheres, new ways of user related text organization, and novel generations of hybrid and artificial languages. Novel textual practices are emerging in which presentation, linear way of narrative, depths, and meaning are being replaced with liquid textscape, blog- based remixability, the multi-sensuous textscape experience and special effects (e.g. Amy Alexander’s VJ shows featuring text-based visuals generated live from Internet engines queries). Text is undergoing radical shifts in its nature addressing both the author and the reader; within a new media paradigm we are facing the digital verbal with the new properties, which allow people to write, read, communicate, learn, explore and create in novel ways.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 21:52

  9. Le(s) Mange Texte(s): Creative Cannibalism and Digital Poetry

    Digital poetry always involves mathematical concepts. Fusing together textual elements is an additive process, at very least. Combining files and presenting them via computer screens multiplies possibilities for poetry, and the sum, or sums, of the artistic equation are often worthy of the effort involved. Thus, what we factor into the equation, and how it is factored in, is important. Considering some of the successful works of digital poetry that appeared in the hypermedia journal Alire in France, and in other historical and contemporary works, I see a trait that emerges despite overt aesthetic differences and variant approaches in works produced that I wish to associate with a liberating and useful poetical concept that emerged in South America nearly a century ago.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.01.2013 - 22:08

  10. Portuguese Experimental Poetry: Revisited and Recreated

    Portuguese Experimental Poetry, claiming to be an avant-garde movement, arose in Lisbon in the mid 60’s. It got its name from the title of a magazine, Cadernos de Poesia Experimental, which became the herald of the movement. Two issues were published, the first in 1964 and the second in 1966, organized by António Aragão and Herberto Hélder. The first issue was presented as anthological, since it included texts not only of Portuguese poets and musicians but also Brazilian, French, Italian and English artists. It also had a section which included poets of several epochs and tendencies, such as Luis de Camões or Quirinus Kuhlmann, representing respectively the mannerist and baroque aesthetics of European poetry.

    (Source: Author's Introduction)

    Alvaro Seica - 02.12.2013 - 15:14