“A project in visual poetry and programming. The project consists of an interactive software pen that uses four ‘nibs’ whose ‘inks’ are lettristic animations of letters. The project also contains screenshots of the pen in action.”
Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://vispo.com/nio/pens
“Feature developed by Rowland Lorimer, Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser University…. This paper [HTML and PDF] was originally presented by Dr. Rowland Lorimer, of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, at the January 11, 2007 In Focus Speakers’ Series Workshop on Digital Transformations.”
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.culturescope.ca/ev_en.php?ID=12796_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
“In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. Jim Andrews has worked with fellow poets Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, Dan Waber, and Geof Huth to make FIRST SCREENING available on the Web.”
Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://vispo.com/bp
“ANIMATION SOUND POETRY DANCE THEATRE EXTRAVAGANZA. Conceived and Directed by Kate Alton and Ross Manson. Based on poetry of the Four Horsemen: Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol. Starring Jennifer Dahl, Graham McKelvie, Noako Murakoshi, and Andrea Nann.”
“What is a poem? In the 1970s, four Canadian sound poets turned the literary world on its ear. Now, director Ross Manson and choreographer Kate Alton have teamed up to bring us a playful tribute to the poetry of The Four Horsemen and a cheeky love-in with the swinging seventies. An outtasight, multi-media extravaganza with dance, song, video and animation that everyone can dig! So far out, it’s back in.”
Date: Running: March 13 - April 1, 2007,
Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.gctc.ca/seasons/06-07/horsemen.html
“In the sixties-through-eighties, Vancouver’s Lionel Kearns produced video poems, visual poems, and poemy poems that were remarkably prescient in their relevance to contemporary digital poetics. This project presents that work by Kearns and meditates on its relation to contemporary digital poetics via putzing with Kearns’s work in interactive pieces.”
Putzing by Jim Andrews at Vispo.com.
Vancouver/Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://vispo.com/kearns
“Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry is edited by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie & Angela Rawlings. Canada’s cutting-edge authors have been acclaimed internationally as some of the most important innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Avant-garde poets challenge the reading and writing status quo, and question what a poem may be. Where conventional collections emphasize traditional and lyric poetry, Shift & Switch offers a unique and highly anticipated alternative: radicality, innovation, and experimentation with sound, visual elements, mathematics, surrealism, and ’pataphysics.”
Canada
http://www.themercurypress.com/poetry/shiftswitch/
“TEXT is a conceptual art/media project that encourages artists’ off every medium to find inspiration through words and art as a whole. The concept is simple and unique: Through 1 chosen piece of text, 10 artists’ will express the text’s message through their art medium and will be given 2 weeks each (in sequence) to create the text and the art that preceded them as they see fit.”
“We are seeking visual and performance artists, writers, designers, and beyond. Beyond can be chefs, carpenters, fashionistas etc…”
See also the Facebook group TEXT Refashion: Project 2.
Date: Your deadline to submit your interest is March 20, 2008
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://homepage.mac.com/msoulard/Submission%20Call.htm
“Vispo Langu(im)age: experimental visual poetry, literary programming, and essays on new media by the poet Jim Andrews. Dedicated to life, poetry, …” Jim’s New Media: Links of the Imagination traces early and more recent new media experiements.
Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.vispo.com/
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“Arras: new media poetry and poetics is devoted to exploring how digital technology has impacted the field of experimental poetics.” Intriguing links.
International
http://www.arras.net/
“Every two years, the E-Poetry series of Digital Poetry Festivals constitutes the most important digital literary gathering in the field. Authors and researchers worldwide meet and present their ideas and works. E-Poetry plays an essential role in the emergence of this new literary field, and provides a forum for the circulation of the ideas and the debates that animate it.”
Date: Every two years. Next:: Sunday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at Université Paris VIII, Paris, France
International
http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/archive/index.html
“the editors at ebr are particularly interested in critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts.”
Check out the ebr weave on Electropoetics: “For many who are committed to working in electronic environments, an electronic ‘review’ might better be named a ‘retrospective,’ a mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. There’s a technological subtext to the declining prestige of authors and literary canons. To bring that subtext to the surface will be part of ebr’s agenda.”—Editor’s Statement
There’s an interesting call for residencies in Riga, the capital of Latvia, to work on ebr’s Electronic Text and Textiles Project.
International
http://www.electronicbookreview.com
Writers: Jack Mapange, Ashok Mathur, Maya Chowdhry, Hiromi Goto. Designer: Andy Campbell. Director: Steve Dearden.
“In October 2001 the four Foundland writers appeared at the Pancanadian Wordfest Calgary Banff International Writers Festival, and in the UK at Lancaster Literature Festival, Bradford Central Library, the University of Leeds and Birmingham Book Festival. They also gave workshops in Calgary, Leeds, Bradford, Birmingham and Ashok and Hiromi worked with writers in the Writing Squad in Sheffield.”
International
http://www.literaturedevelopment.com/foundland/
“International Exchange for Poetic Invention is a multilanguage weblog with links and information on poetic invention – our term for exploratory/ investigative/ experimental/ radical/ conceptual poetry. We hope the site will serve as an international point of contact for the exchange of information among those interested.” —Charles Bernstein & Ton van ‘t Hof
International
http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/index.html
Editors Megan Sapnar and Ingrid Ankerson write: “Although we use the term “new media poetry” as a genre of “electronic literature” to describe the work included in Poems that Go, “literature” itself proves to be a pesky term. Indeed, we have been accused of devaluing the word at the expense of the image. Our goal here is not to elevate one art above the rest, but to seek an inclusive understanding of literature, one that goes beyond written text-based works, to include visual, aural and media literacy…. In this spirit, Poems that Go explores the intersections between motion, sound, image, text, and code.”
International
http://www.poemsthatgo.com/
“The Itinerant Poetry Librarian travels the world with a library of ‘Lost and Forgotten’ poetry, installing the library & librarian and recording the sounds, poems and poetry of the cities, peoples and countries she meets.”
Date: Started in UK, toured Europe, currently based in USA. See weblog for cities and dates.
International
http://www.itinerantpoetrylibrarian.blogspot.com/
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“As the first significant CDROM poetry publication in Australia, papertiger: new world poetry rocked the poetry boat at a time when most debate centred on the (now very tired) subject of ‘print versus web’, etc. For the founders of papertiger media, one of the aims of publishing poetry on CDROM was to subvert the debate by blending the best elements of books and ezines into one package.”
West End, Queensland,
Australia
http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/default.htm
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“The Poetry Cubicle’s founding aims are to explore, interpret, document, preserve and archive ‘poetry’ in its myriad, and hybrid, forms, expressions and states, and to provide access to such artistic expressions through the physical and digital realms to as wide an audience as possible.”
See also The itinerant Poetry Librarian weblog.
Norwich,
U.K. (England)
http://www.thepoetrycubicle.org.uk/indexTPC.html
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“duration press publishes a print chapbook series, & three e-book series:”
The “duration series of international poetry, one of the few of its kind, is dedicated primarily to poetry in translation.”
Also, “duration : poetics: our e-anthology series of poetics / criticism, with each title dedicated to a single issue or concern.”
United States
http://durationpress.com/
e-poets.network — “where spoken word lives on the web”
New media features include the Incomplete History of Slam, the e-poets library, the Book of Voices, and Videotheque.
Chicago, Illinois,
United States
http://e-poets.net/
“The EPC was founded in 1995 and serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University at Buffalo, the University of Pennsylvania’s PennSound, UBU web, and on the Web at large. Our aim is simple: to make available a wide range of resources centered on digital and contemporary formally innovative poetries, new media writing, and literary programming.”
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York,
United States
http://epc.buffalo.edu/
“How do we define new media poetry? Why does the introduction of digital media necessitate this re-assessment of writing? How does this understanding change the nature of reading? What implications does it have for developing appropriate and illuminating critical responses? What might such critical responses look like? One of the unique aspects of this LEA special issue is the way in which many of the articles model critical readings of such work, addressing how digital media have contributed to an expanded concept of the poem in which code now plays a role, as well as exploring how such poems often derive meaning from their own precarious existence in networked language environments.”—Tim Peterson, from his guest editorial, New Media Poetry and Poetics: From Concrete to Codework: Praxis in Networked and Programmable Media
Date: published September 2006
United States
http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/toc.asp
New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Insitutions, and Audiences, a conference at the University of Iowa, October 11-12, 2002, was the first of its kind “devoted exclusively to the critical study of this emerging literary practice.” Here, you can find abstracts of the papers presented as well as a gallery of new media sites.
University of Iowa, Iowa,
United States
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/
“The Center for Literary Computing (CLC) rethinks literary studies for the digital age, developing interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments.”
West Virginia University,
United States
http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/
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