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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.
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Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry
In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the development of more advanced hardware and software.The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, \"isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting.\" He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that \"the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves.\"
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Digital Poetics
In this revolutionary and highly original work, poet-scholar Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry. In Digital Poetics , Loss Pequeño Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and accessibility, specifically the World Wide Web, has created a new and viable place for the writing and dissemination of poetry. Glazier's work not only introduces the reader to the current state of electronic writing but also outlines the historical and technical contexts out of which electronic poetry has emerged and demonstrates some of the possibilities of the new medium. Glazier examines three principal forms of electronic textuality: hypertext, visual/kinetic text, and works in programmable media. He considers avant-garde poetics and its relationship to the on-line age, the relationship between web "pages" and book technology, and the way in which certain kinds of web constructions are in and of themselves a type of writing. With convincing alacrity, Glazier argues that the materiality of electronic writing has changed the idea of writing itself. He concludes that electronic space is the true home of poetry and, in the 20th century, has become the ultimate "space of poesis." Digital Poetics will attract a readership of scholars and students interested in contemporary creative writing and the potential of electronic media for imaginative expression.
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Virtual muse : experiments in computer poetry
In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the development of more advanced hardware and software.
The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting. He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves.
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New media poetics : contexts, technotexts, and theories
The first collection of writings on poetry that is composed, disseminated, and read on computers; essays and artist statements explore visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic works that are created by a synergy of human beings and intelligent machines.
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IBM Poetry: Exploring Restriction in Computer Poems
In the 1960s, many years prior to the advent of personal computers and mainstream cultural accessibility to them, Emmett Williams devised a method that he felt reflected the expressive potential of algorithmic processes within a printed page’s confines. Williams’ “IBM” method serves as a “muse’s assistant,” in which a user-contrived vocabulary is employed to construct poems in which letters of words in one line are used to create subsequent lines. This article introduces the imposed conditions of Williams’ invention, comparing and placing them within a range of digital writings that appear during subsequent decades.
Journal Article
Migrating Modes: Multimodality in E-Poetics as \Another Kind of Language\
In Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs and Another Kind of Language, María Mencía's poetics of transposition diagnoses the technological, medial, and poetic processes catalyzing multimodal signifying practices in digital writing and comparatively registers the impact of digital interface relations, as transformative material sites, on language and intersemiotic and intersubjective meaning.
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New territory : an interview with digital poet Helen Sword
Interviews digital poet Helen Sword about how digital poetry changes how we produce and engage with poems. Draws on poems from her website, 'The stoneflower path', to discuss what digital poetry can do along with the questions that it raises. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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