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Prehistoric Digital Poetry
Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and
demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly
limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and
enriched poetic discourse For the last five
decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers
and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and
analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major
practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to
foster a new aesthetic. Focusing primarily on programs and
experiments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web
in the mid-1990s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark
works of digital poetry to illustrate that the foundations of
today’s most advanced works are rooted in the rudimentary
generative, visual, and interlinked productions of the
genre’s prehistoric period. Since 1959, computers have
been used to produce several types of poetic output, including
randomly generated writings, graphical works (static, animated,
and video formats), and hypertext and hypermedia. Funkhouser
demonstrates how hardware, programming, and software have been
used to compose a range of new digital poetic forms. Several
dozen historical examples, drawn from all of the predominant
approaches to digital poetry, are discussed, highlighting the
transformational and multi-faceted aspects of poetic
composition now available to authors. This account includes
many works, in English and other languages, which have never
before been presented in an English-language publication. In
exploring pioneering works of digital poetry, Funkhouser
demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly
limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and
enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry
and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both
to influence poets working today and to highlight what the
future of digital poetry may hold.
eBook
On Jim Rosenberg's Word Space Multiplicities
Rosenberg's site does feature examples of digital and other works composed across four decades, including \"Word Installations\", \"Poetry for simultaneous voices\", and Diagram Poems of a design pursued by no one else, as in this example from the 1970s (for more examples see Inframergence): In the end, someone willing to make an effort to engage and explore Rosenberg's versatile poetry will come to see it, formally-from this early point onward-as directed merging(s), in language, within a variety of visual and verbal frames or framework/framing devices. The overall impact of the expanse of language becomes more important than systematic reading, a design demanding that a reader's concentration and memory derive meaning by fusing their interaction (construction) and experience (response) with the text. Throughout Rosenberg7s ongoing Diagram Series, discussed in \"The Interactive Diagram Sentence: Hypertext as a Medium for Thought\", hypertext design does not impart one-to-one associations between disparate documents, but rather serves, in conjunction with the externalization of syntax, \"to carry the infrastructures of language itself\" (134). Since the platform of expression is computer-based, the reader experiences grammar and language in an unprecedented way. [...]Rosenberg writes, \"To understand the network one becomes the network\" (127).
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Bionanomedia Expression
Eduardo Kac, Media Poetry Introducing Eduardo Kac’s collection Hodibis Potax, the fictional author “Philip Sidney” (identified as “Director of Thermal Ion Verbodynamics Division” in a “Department of Literary Timeshift Experiments” at an “Eternaut Training Center” in Shanghai, who refers to the artifact in hand as a “qbook”) recalls Kac wanting to send holopoems (holographically displayed poetry) towards Andromeda in 1986. A decade later, Kac—now more widely known as a biological artist than a pioneering author, theorist, and curator of digital poetry—has revisited his influential (yet somewhat obscure) anthology and has published a revised edition titled Media Poetry: An International Anthology. Kac wisely includes essays by authors who focus on the implications of the influence of machinery on poetry, paying particular regard to increased portability, media convergence, broadband networks, and gaming. Kac’s essay, “Biopoetry” (which appears in Media Poetry and Hodibis Potax), also acknowledges digital poetry’s affinity with science. Since poetry has been migrating away from the printed page since the 1980s, he writes, “in a world of clones, chimeras, and transgenic creatures, it is time to consider new directions for poetry in vivo,” and proposes the “use of biotechnology and living organisms in poetry as a new realm of verbal, paraverbal, and non-verbal creation” (191).
Journal Article
An Interview with Nathaniel Mackey
In an interview, Nathaniel Mackey talks about his writing and teaching. Mackey is a published poet, a professor at the University of Santa Cruz and the editor of the magazine \"Hambone.\"
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