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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
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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
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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
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The Freedom Adventure of Portuguese Experimentalism and Kinetic Poetry
The Freedom Adventure of Portuguese Experimentalism and Kinetic Poetry
Ana Castello - 27.04.2018 - 14:25
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Introduction - Concrete Poetry: A World View
Introduction - Concrete Poetry: A World View
Ana Castello - 09.10.2018 - 15:17
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Concrete & “What Looks Like Poetry
Concrete & “What Looks Like Poetry
Ana Castello - 13.10.2018 - 17:10
