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  1. Digital Poetics or On the Evolution of Experimental Media Poetry

    The academic and literature critical discussion on new media poetry or about digital texts swings to and fro, in method and conception between two poles: one is the 'work immanent' approach of structure description and classification, and the other the deduction of abstract media esthetics. At a tangent to this the communication on media, culture and media art has been more or less committed to the priority of technological reasoning since the nineties at the latest. The concern with technology remains a dilemma: Technology has to be taken into account when dealing with concrete structure analyses of works of digital poetry, but some traps lie in wait. Is the knowledge accounted for here really sufficient? I would say that few of those taking part in the discussion who do not actually work in the specific area artistically are capable of programming digital texts (the same may be said of some artists). Another problem is something I have casually termed a new techno-ontology: a ‘cold fascination’ for technological being (also of texts), which flares up briefly with each innovation pressing for the market in the respective field.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 14:16

  2. From Concrete to Digital: The Reconceptualization of Poetic Space

    It has almost become self-evident in the critical discourse on digital poetry to assess digital poetry as a continuation of an experimental tradition with its origins in the historical and the neo-avant-garde. Critics such as Friedrich W. Block and Roberto Simanowski in particular read contemporary digital poetry explicitly as extension and continuation of concerns of the avant-garde and concrete poets.

    Block points out that almost all vital concerns of digital poetry can be traced back to its historical predecessors. He names the reflection upon the concrete language material, the transgression of genre boundaries, multilinearity and the exploration of spatial structures, movement and interactivity as key strategies which are vital concepts in historical avant-garde, concrete and digital poetry. Digital poetry is frequently, and I believe correctly, assigned to the wider trajectory of experimental/avant-garde poetry in many other studies as well. It is often considered as a third stage, contemporary continuation and further development of earlier experiments.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 14:43

  3. The Poetry Beyond Text Project

    This presentation gives an overview on the research project "Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" (2009 – 2011), funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, emphasizing areas of potential connection with ELMCIP, and raising issues relevant to electronic literature.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:52

  4. Om Monica Aasprongs Soldatmarkedet

    A discussion of Monica Aasprong's series of works titled Soldatmarkedet, offering comparisons, descriptions of the various instantiations of Soldatmarkedet, and interpretations.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 21:50

  5. PO.EX '70-­80: The Electronic Multimodal Repository

    Portuguese experimental poetry of the 1970s and 1980s includes visual poetry, sound poetry, videopoetry, performance poetry, and computer poetry. Experimental literary objects, practices, and events often consist of an interaction between notational forms on paper and site-specific live performances. Thus the eventuality of literary meaning is dramatically foregrounded by turning the text into a script for an act whose performance co-constitutes the work. The aim of ‘PO.EX ‘70-’80: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature’ (http://po-ex.net/) is to represent this intermedia and performative textuality in an electronic database. The aggregation and marking up of this large multimodal corpus has material and interpretative implications which challenge our representations of experimental works and practices. Whether taking the form of facsimiles of books and paper collages, photographs of installations, videos of performances or emulations of early digital poems, digital remediation re-performs the works for the current techno-social context.

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:28

  6. The Reader, the Player and the Executable Poetics: Towards a Literature Beyond the Book

    Giselle Beiguelman underlines that it is essential to be aware of the historical continuities as well as of the discontinuities that materialize in electronic literature or art. This is particularly true in Brazil where multimedia poets combine videotext and video with their texts.The essay deals both with these historical continueties and more recent trends exhibited in a number of recent works of electronic literature.
    (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

    Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 16:16

  7. Acoustic and Visual Imagination in Poetry from the Neo_Avantgarde to New Media Poetry in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Poetry

    At the beginning of my text I will consider contemporary interpretations of the visual and acoustic aspects of poetry. The main references will be texts written by American poets, performers, artists, theoreticinas such as Charles Bernstein, Michael Davidson, and Johanna Drucker. Shortly, I will point to the history of these phenomena in the West. Special attention will be given to the concepts of plurivocality and plurality of visual projections in different kinds of experimental poetry.

    In applying these concepts in considering Yugoslav Avant-Gardists:  Franci Zagoričnik and OHO group (Slovenia), Vlado Martek (Croatian) and Katalin Ladik and Awin authors (Serbia) I will first discuss the status of experimental poetry in so called small cultures. Then I will show the range of experimentation in the work of the poets I have mentioned, who worked within the Yugoslav socialism and post-Yougoslav postsocialism.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 11:25

  8. Third Hand Plays: "Repeat After Me" by joerg piringer

    Third Hand Plays: "Repeat After Me" by joerg piringer

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.10.2011 - 10:33

  9. Concrete Poetry: An International Debate

    Among others, featuring articles by recognized e-lit scholars covering international perspectives on concrete poetry and new media in Portugal, Brasil, Sweden, and Denmark.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 03.02.2012 - 15:45

  10. Questions to Augusto de Campos

    An interview with Augusto de Campos on concrete poetry as international movement.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 03.02.2012 - 15:56

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