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1. E-CyberDigital Poetry: To Grasp or to Build a Genre Identity through a Term’s Choice?

   In recent years, the field of digital poetry had at least three major critical monographs
   discussing the genre and its state-of-the-art. Loss Pequeño Glazier (2002), Brian Kim
   Stefans (2003) and Christopher T. Funkhouser (2007) have not only introduced new
   critical perspectives, but have also discussed the genre’s problematic definition and its
   denominations’ variety: e-poetry, cyberpoetry and digital poetry.
   Considering Theo Lutz’s Stochastische Texte (1959) as the first work of
   programmable poetry, one should note the genre’s long history of practice in spite of
   its shorter history of critical writing. Therefore, the way authors have been coining
   and defining the genre itself claims for a theorization standpoint and helps shaping the
   field towards a specific path and perhaps a crystalized historical construction.
   Do the referenced terms position their authors in a similar flow of thought? By
   following a concept’s trajectory and the author’s choice, one must consider the fact
   that its crystallization will shape future critical writing. In this sense, it is important to
   

   Alvaro Seica - 04.02.2015 - 19:09

2. Early Digital Art and Writing

   Decades before digital art and writing became widely transmitted and accessed online, pioneers in these expressive fields relied predominantly on sponsored exhibitions of their work. Prior to the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW), computer-based practitioners desiring to share their compositions - and audiences interested in these contemporary developments - depended on a small number of sympathetic museums and galleries that promoted such innovations. In the 1960s and early 1970s, these exhibits tended to unite experiments produced by both digital writers and artists. Gradually, as electronic arts expanded in a way that digital writing would not until the proliferation of personal computing and global networks in the 1990s, subsequent exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly featured graphical rather than language-oriented works. The arts, historically familiar with formal shifts in media in ways that literature was not, quickly responded to the calling of computerized machinery; writers more gradually adapted to digital possibilities.

   (Source: Author's introduction)

   Thor Baukhol Madsen - 06.02.2015 - 12:30