Digital poetry

Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available in form of CD ROM, DVD, as installations in art galleries, in certain cases also recorded as digital video or films, as digital holograms and on the World Wide Web or Internet.

A significant portion of current publications of poetry are available either only online or via some combination of online and offline publication. There are many types of 'digital poetry' such as hypertext, kinetic poetry, computer generated animation, digital visual poetry, interactive poetry, code poetry, holographic poetry (holopoetry), experimental video poetry, and poetries that take advantage of the programmable nature of the computer to create works that are interactive, or use generative or combinatorial approach to create text (or one of its states), or involve sound poetry, or take advantage of things like listservs, blogs, and other forms of network communication to create communities of collaborative writing and publication (as in poetical wikis).

Digital computers allow the creation of art that spans different media: text, images, sounds, and interactivity via programming. Contemporary poetries have, therefore, taken advantage of this toward the creation of works that synthesize both arts and media. Whether a work is poetry or visual art or music or programming is sometimes not clear, but we expect an intense engagement with language in poetical works.

Hypertext poetry

Hypertext poetry is a form of digital poetry that uses links using hypertext mark-up. It is a very visual form, and is related to hypertext fiction and visual arts. The links mean that a hypertext poem has no set order, the poem moving or being generated in response to the links that the reader/user chooses. It can either involve set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and / or mutate. It is usually found online, though CD-ROM and diskette versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than the mid 1980s.

Notable people

Jean-Pierre Balpe Giselle Beiguelman Alan Bigelow Philippe Bootz E. M. de Melo e Castro John Cayley Caterina Davinio Klaus Peter Dencker Tina Escaja es:Tina Escaja Belen Gache Loss Pequeño Glazier Ladislao Pablo Györi Patrick Herron Eduardo Kac Robert Kendall Richard Kostelanetz Orit Kruglanski Rip Kungler Lello Masucci Yucef Merhi Jason Nelson Philip M. Parker Scott Ransopher Jim Rosenberg Bill Seaman Teo Spiller Stephanie Strickland Duc Thuan Gianni Toti André Vallias Paulo Aquarone site senel wanniarachci

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See also

• Ciberpoesía
• Cybertext
• Electronic Literature Organization
• Interactive poetry

External links

• New Media Poetry and Poetics Leonardo Electronic Almanac 14 5-6 (2006)
• New Media Poetry, Hypertext and Experimental Literature Bibliography compiled by Eduardo Kac for Leonardo/ISAST
• Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo
• Toto Poetry A Digital Poetry Dictionary authored by Computers
• Names for hypertext poetry and related forms
• Chris Funkhouser: "Hypertext and Poetry
• Judy Malloy: where every luminous landscape
• Jason Nelson: Digital Poetry Portal
• The Digital Aphorisms of Rip Kungler

Example of Digital Poetry on Youtube.com, Waterfall Hearts [2]