Review
"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
Product Description
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 many other innovative procedures.
This new media poetry, although defined within the field of experimental poetics, departs radically from the avant-garde movements of the first half of the century, and the print-based approaches of the second half. Through an embrace of the vast possibilities made available through new media, the artists in this anthology have become the poetic pioneers for the next millennium.
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 many other innovative procedures.
This new media poetry, although defined within the field of experimental poetics, departs radically from the avant-garde movements of the first half of the century, and the print-based approaches of the second half. Through an embrace of the vast possibilities made available through new media, the artists in this anthology have become the poetic pioneers for the next millennium.
