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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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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
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Meditationer omkring et o ('Meditations around an o')
Den norske digter Ottar Ormstads svevedikt er i sagens natur ikke for fastholdere. "Fnugget svæver i luften" står der i Nudansk Ordbog under ordet svæve. Eksemplet er i selskab med ord som "danserinde", "smil", "uunderbygget påstand" og "vag". Hvordan læser man overhovedet digte, der svæver? Når fnugget ikke kan fanges, danserindens bevægelse aldrig fikseres, smilet ikke afkodes. Digte, der bliver ved med at svæve, kompletteres aldrig. Enhver læsning må derfor også kuldsejle. Ligesom digtene kuldsejler. Men alligevel fortsætter. Som foranderlige former, lyde og betydninger. Ud i alle retninger.
(Source: Karen Wagner, catalog text)
Patricia Tomaszek - 21.02.2012 - 20:54
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Generative Visual Renku: Poetic Multimedia Semantics with the GRIOT System
A polymorphic poem (polypoem) is a generative digital artwork that is constructed differently upon each instantiation, but can be meaningfully constrained according to aspects such as theme, metaphor, affect, and discourse structure. The Generative Visual Renku project presents a new form of concrete polymorphic poetry inspired by Japanese renku poetry, iconicity of Chinese character forms, and generative models from contemporary art. Calligraphic iconic illustrations are conjoined by the GRIOT system into a fanciful topography articulating the nuanced interplay between organic (natural or hand-created) and modular (mass-produced or consumerist) artifacts that saturate our lives. GRIOT, which is a system for composing generative and interactive narrative and poetic works, is used to semantically constrain generated output both visually and conceptually. On the one hand, this project extends the GRIOT architecture's support for composing graphics and has resulted in new theory to provide cognitive and semiotic groundings for the extension.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:20
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From Concrete to Digital Poetry: Driving Down the Road of Continuity? A Personal Report from Norway
In this contribution I discuss my practice as concrete and visual poet with a special mode of creation from paper-based works to digital video-poems. I trace my path through the paper by describing some of my earlier works that built the basis for the concepts behind the animated works svevedikt (2006), LYMS (2009), when (2011), and natyr (2013). My aim is to express my artistic position at the time I visited the E-Poetry Festival in Paris 2007, and thereby entered the “e-lit-family” for the first time. It is my wish to explain how I experienced the festival in several ways: the relation between the presentation of papers and works, the variety of the works and performances, the impressions of meeting a well-established community, and a comparison between the festival and arrangements in the late sixties from an ideological perspective. To accomplish this, I will (after a short discussion of terms and contextualization) provide a description of my background as visual artist, and the different sorts of poetry I have created before I entered the electronic literature community in 2007. Then I want to focus on how I was influenced by the festival and the community.
Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2013 - 16:03
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Creative Practice and Experimental Method in Electronic Literature and Human Experimental Psychology
This article discusses issues arising from the relationship between practitioners in Electronic Literature and researchers in the field of Human Experimental Psychology, including the possible emergence of new communities that cross over this boundary. The introduction (1) considers the possible drivers of this process, including technology, interdisciplinarity and research funding policy, after first explaining the source of the article in an interdisciplinary project, Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition (2009-11). This project involved literary critics, psychologists and creative artists and studied works that combine (poetic) text with images, including digital poetry, concrete poetry, artists’ books, visual poetry and poetry-photographic works. In section 2 we discuss the concept of the “experimental” in aesthetic and scientific contexts, identifying the relatively universal model of the subject constructed through experimental procedure in Psychology and contrasting it with the radical idea of the subject implied by avant-garde aesthetic practice.
Scott Rettberg - 25.06.2013 - 13:52
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Concrete and Digital Poetics
I argue that there is an intrinsic connection between concrete poetics as a theory of the medium (i.e., of language, of written language, and of poetical forms) and digital poetics as a theory of poetry for the digital medium. This link is clearly seen in the use of concrete poems as storyboards and scripts for electronic texts, both in composing text for graphic interface static display and for animation. This essay deals with the adoption of electronic media by concrete poets, with examples from the work of Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos (1931-), and Portuguese poets E.M. de Melo e Castro (1932-) and Tiago Gomez Rodrigues (1972-).
(Source: Author's Abstract)
Alvaro Seica - 05.12.2013 - 16:09
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Reading Writing Interfaces by Lori Emerson
Lori Emerson's Reading Writing Interfaces is a media archeology of the interface. A critique of the "invisible" interface, the "magic" of iOS that "just works," Emerson analyzes how interfaces promote or occlude human agency in computational environments. Anti-telelogical in order to interrupt the "triumphalist" narratives of progress that can characterize much writing about media, Reading Writing Interfaces stages its four chapters and postscript ("The Googlization of Literature") as "ruptures" to emphasize failure as a key element of media development.
Kathi Inman Berens - 19.09.2014 - 16:49
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Looking Back while Moving Forward: The Case of Concrete Poetry and Sankofa
This article considers the intersection between African oral tradition and electronic literature by exploring the potential of Sankofa to interact with concrete poetry in an electronic space. Sankofa is an example of the Adinkra, a set of symbols that were originally created and used by the Akan in West Africa. These symbols have literary value which this article looks at in ways similar to concrete poetry; examining Sankofa as concrete poetry in an electronic context enables a simultaneous dovetailing with as well as convergence from oral and print based modes of engaging with the text: aspects of oral tradition influence this exploration.
Elias Adanu - 07.06.2017 - 20:12
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Urs Schreibers "Das Epos der Maschine": Wenn konkrete Poesie digital wird
Urs Schreibers "Das Epos der Maschine": Wenn konkrete Poesie digital wird
Patricia Tomaszek - 23.07.2018 - 16:30
