Media poetry
Subtitle: an international anthology
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Exeter
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781841509945
Description: The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental poetics. It embraces new technologies to explore a new syntax made of linear and non-linear animation, hyperlinkage, interactivity, real-time text generation, spatiotemporal discontinuities, self-similarity, synthetic spaces, immateriality, diagrammatic relations, visual tempo, multiple simultaneities, and ma.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Introduction to the First Edition (1996); Part I; title: Digital Poetry; The Interactive Diagram Sentence: Hypertext as a Medium of Thought; Quantum Poetics: Six Thoughts; From ASCII to Cyberspace: A Trajectory in Digital Poetry; Unique-reading Poems: A Multimedia Generator; Interactive Poems; We Have Not Understood Descartes; Virtual Poetry; Nomadic Poems; Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext; Part II; title: Multimedia Poetics; Holopoetry; Recombinant Poetics; Videopoetry; Language-based Videotapes & Audio Videotapes; Biopoetry.