Media Poetry: An International Anthology [Paperback]

"That Eduardo Kac's, Media Poetry: An International Anthology exposes scholars and artists to electronic literature that has emerged out of Europe, South America, and North America and focuses intently on one genre of electronic literature speaks to the book's significance as a scholarly work. It makes an excellent text for graduate programs in digital media and has the potential of shaping the current vision of media poetry as well as other genres of literature produced for and by computing devices and influencing the larger field of media art by raising awareness of electronic literature." - Dene Grigar, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts "I find these papers by media poets fascinating to read because they are so explicit about the epistemic change (social change in discursive formations) instantiated in their work. The poets are acutely conscious of what they are doing and why." - Rosemary Huisman Associate Professor, The University of Sydney "Media Poetry is a news-broadcast from an international gathering of digital poets; Hodibis Potax provides a vivas holopoetry[...]We can hope that Kac will, in decades hence, continue to use his experience and expertise as an artist and researcher to issue additional volumes." - Chris Funkhouser, Project Muse "Media Poetry: An International Anthology has the advantage of being a glimpse into a moment of time filled with wildly diverse, rapidly changing practices." - Jay Murphy, Afterimage "Kac's anthology displays a range of approaches toward literacy dynamism in Europe and the Americas across four decades." - Chris Funkhouser, Electronic Book Review

Today's innovative poets no longer express their dissenting voice on the printed page but in the experimental realm of contemporary media, where holograms, video projections, and even biotechnology form the basis of a new syntax. Celebrated poet and artist Eduardo Kac's" Media Poetry" is the first anthology to document this radically new form, which is taking language beyond the confines of verse and into the non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage.This unparalleled volume takes up all the exhilarating incarnations of media poetry, from real-time text generation and spatiotemporal discontinuities to immateriality and visual tempo, exploring the international group of revolutionary poets responsible for such innovations. By embracing the vast possibilities made available by new media, the artists featured in this anthology have become the poetic pioneers of the next millennium.

Eduardo Kac, Professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is an artist and writer who invented holographic and digital poetry. His poetic works and theoretical essays have been exhibited and published internationally. He created his first poem online in 1985 (with the French minitel network), and since the early 1980s has built a body of work in media poetry. Well known for his bio art, including 'GFP Bunny' (the green-glowing rabbit Alba, 2000), Kac has also created biopoems (poems written with or within living beings).