Media poetry [[electronic resource] ] : an international anthology / / Eduardo Kac, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809954203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-18733-X; 9786611187330; 1-84150-994-9; 1-84150-932-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KacEduardo
• Disciplina: 808.81
• Soggetti: Experimental poetry; Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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