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Quick Access to Poetry in the Age of Technology
Article about poetry apps for the iPad and iPhone.
Scott Rettberg - 07.10.2012 - 13:37
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Poesi för en liten grupp
This article briefly discusses the works of three Swedish poets (Emil Boss, Anna-Maria Ytterbom, and Johannes Heldén), and ultimately finds them confusing and tedious. The third piece, Entropi by Heldén, is a work of ELit. Dahlerus criticizes it as "Mycket svår poesi för ovana lyrikläsare" [Very difficult for inexperienced poetry readers]. He complains that the work forces him to become "något slags lyrikdetektiv" [some kind of poetry detective] to discover clues to the meaning of the poetry. Though he acknowledges that there is a place for "oläsbar poesi" [unreadable poetry], he asserts that too much of this kind of poetry causes him to wish for a new poetry - one that "vågar vara tydlig, vågar kommunicera" [dares to be clear, dares to communicate]. The three reader comments following the article indicate that they all strongly disagree with Dahlerus.
Melissa Lucas - 16.10.2012 - 11:48
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Internetliteratur. Zu einer modernen Produktions- und Rezeptionsasthetik des netzgenuinen deutschsprachigen Schrifttums
Internetliteratur. Zu einer modernen Produktions- und Rezeptionsasthetik des netzgenuinen deutschsprachigen Schrifttums
Johannes Auer - 06.11.2012 - 11:48
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Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2012
Biennial award dedicated to poetry films.
Luciana Gattass - 22.11.2012 - 06:32
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Poetic Machines: an investigation into the impact of the characteristics of the digital apparatus on poetic expression
This thesis aims to investigate digital methods of signification in order to examine the impact of the apparatus on poetic expression. This is done through a critical analysis of the translation process from analogue to digital, in the sense that even as we read a page we are in fact translating sight into sound. The resulting effects of this change in form are explored in order to understand their impact on meaning-making in the digital realm. Through this interrogation the comprehension and definition of ePoetry (electronic poetry or digital poetry) is extended, by exposing the unique affordances and specificities of digital expression. Digital poetry theorists such as Loss Pequeño Glazier posit that the emerging field of electronic literature is composed of interweaving strands from the areas of computer science, sociology, and literary studies. This is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of this thesis, which necessitates an engagement with the broad areas of translation, literature, and digital media studies.
Scott Rettberg - 07.01.2013 - 14:33
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Words and pictures ex machina? Hypertext and ekphrasis
Following the concept of "remediation" and the premise that "all of our examples of hypermediacy are characterized by this kind of borrowing, as is also ancient and modern ekphrasis" (Bolter and Grusin, 1999: 44-45), I would like to take under consideration a literary work of Portuguese poet Vasco Graça MouraGiraldomachias / Em demanda de Moura (co-author Gérard Castello-Lopes; 2000).
Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 10:28
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Fugues: An Associative Project on Reading Poetry through the Use of Hypermedia
Fugues, a project of the NT2 Laboratory at the Université du Québec à Montréal, is both an hypermedia adaptation of the poem Piano published 2001 by Quebec author René Lapierre and a literary critical analysis of that same poem. The Fugues Project originally came about when Bertrand Gervais asked NT2 Lab students to think about how to read and to analyze a paper-published poem through hypermedia. Instead of writing a dissertation as one usually does when reading a text in a literature classroom, participants were asked to adapt Piano through hypermedia. The goal was to think about new ways of reading printed text using electronic tools. The participants came up with an associative way of exploring this particular poem. This experimental project was designed not only to build an audience for new media literary works and writing by just presenting existing hypermedia works, but also to ask these literary scholars to think how they would go about writing a paper about a poem in a non-textbook manner. The idea behind this was to put theory into practice.
Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 13:45
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Literary Programming (In the Age of Digital Transliteration)
This paper is proposed as the second part of an essay, the first part of which was presented at DAC'98, having the overall title 'Performances of Writing in the Age of Digital Transliteration'. Part one of this essay raised questions -- contextualized by reference to Walter Benjamin and Friedrich Kittler, amongst others -- concerning the intrinsically digital characteristics of text, along with certain implications of these characteristics (and what they have entailed, specifically and especially: the Net) for traditional literary culture, for the latter's critique, and for textual, especially artistic textual practices.
Scott Rettberg - 19.01.2013 - 01:23
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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
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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
