New Media Poetics

by Morris, Adalaide Kirby; Swiss, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780262134637
• ISBN10: 0262134632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-16
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

New media poetry--poetry composed, disseminated, and read on computers--exists in various configurations, from electronic documents that can be navigated and/or rearranged by their "users" to kinetic, visual, and sound materials through online journals and archives like UbuWeb, PennSound, and the Electronic Poetry Center. Unlike mainstream print poetry, which assumes a bounded, coherent, and self-conscious speaker, new media poetry assumes a synergy between human beings and intelligent machines. The essays and artist statements in this volume explore this synergy's continuities and breaks with past poetic practices, and its profound implications for the future. By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms, New Media Poeticsextends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics. Contributors: Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, Alan Filreis, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Alan Golding, Kenneth Goldsmith, N. Katherine Hayles, Cynthia Lawson, Jennifer Ley, Talan Memmott, Adalaide Morris, Carrie Noland, Marjorie Perloff, William Poundstone, Martin Spinelli, Stephanie Strickland, Brian Kim Stefans, Barrett Watten, Darren Wershler-Henry

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write	1	(46)
Adalaide Morris
I Contexts	47	(94)
The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and the Dematerialization of Tony Curtis	49	(16)
Kenneth Goldsmith
Toward a Poetics for Circulars	65	(30)
Brian Kim Stefans
Exchange on Circulars (2003)	73	(22)
Brian Kim Stefans
Darren Wershler-Henry
Riding the Meridian	95	(4)
Jennifer Ley
Electric Line: The Poetics of Digital Audio Editing	99	(24)
Martin Spinelli
Kinetic is as Kinetic Does: On The Institutionalization of Digital Poetry	123	(18)
Alan Filreis
II Technotexts	141	(150)
Screening the Page/Paging The Screen: Digital Poetics and The Differential Text	143	(22)
Marjorie Perloff
Vniverse	165	(16)
Stephanie Strickland
Cynthia Lawson
The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event	181	(30)
N. Katherine Hayles
IO Sono At Swoons	211	(6)
Loss Pequeno Glazier
Digital Gestures	217	(28)
Carrie Noland
3 Proposals For Bottle IMPS	245	(4)
William Poundstone
Language Writing, Digital Poetics, And Transitional Materialities	249	(36)
Alan Golding
Nomadic Poetry	285	(6)
Giselle Beiguelman
III Theories	291	(80)
Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics And The Problem Of Reading	293	(14)
Talan Memmott
Time Code Language: New Media Poetics And Programmed Signification	307	(28)
John Cayley
Poetics In The Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital....	335	(36)
Barrett Watten
Bibliography	371	(32)
Contributors	403	(4)
Index	407