Media poetry : an international anthology / Eduardo Kac, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kac, Eduardo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Introduction to the First Edition (1996); Part I - 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 - Multimedia Poetics; Holopoetry; Recombinant Poetics; Videopoetry; Language-based Videotapes & Audio Videotapes; Biopoetry

Part III - Historical and Critical PerspectivesMedia Poetry - Theories and Strategies; Poetic Machinations; Digital Poetics or On The Evolution of Experimental Media Poetry; Reflections on the Perception of Generative and Interactive Hypermedia Works; Screening a Digital Visual Poetics; Part IV - Appendices; Media Poetry Chronology; Selected Webliography; Sources; Biographies; Acknowledgements; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611187330

9781281187338

128118733X

9781841509945

1841509949

9781841509327

1841509329

OCLC:

191925907