Another way that electronic poetry is making inroads is by subverting older technologies that on their own are not necessarily dynamic, or even well suited to poetry. Damian lopes has played with the idea of navigation within a site, a web standard so sacred whole careers are made of defining what is right and wrong. Sensory Deprivation seemingly navigates itself, loading new pages at will, moving itself further and further along at the very moment you attempt to interact with it. You quickly learn the means to regain control but not before you realize that the Website can be viewed as a canvas, and not merely as a container, which it has been previously. Another poet working closely with subverting technology is Neil Hennessy.
Jabberwocky sets a random bunch of letters on a lexical collision course.
When letters collide they will either join into text-gloms, fragments of a possible speech, or bounce off each other depending on their frequency in the language. Watching this piece unfold is like being privy to a highly ritualized mating ceremony, the outcome of which being predetermined, though not necessarily so. The beauty, and subtlety involved in this, and similar pieces by Neil, is astounding. For the most part work of this nature is in its infancy. The poetry being produced has a real excitement to it and is clearly the rough edge of something great to come.