Digital Poetry: A Revolution In Publishing? (PHOTOS)

In the simplest terms Digital Poems are born from the combination of technology and poetry, with writers using all multi-media elements as critical texts. Sounds, images, movement, video, interface/interactivity and words are combined to create new poetic forms and experiences. And when a piece like "game, game..." attracts millions of readers while a "successful" print poem might attract a hundred, I think the digital truly is the future of poetry. Heliozoa.com is designed as a stable of sorts, for the these poetic digital horses to sleep. Readers can play within the possibilities of the electronic poem, to inspire and frighten, to allure and repel. An introduction to what poetry has become, and the imaginary lands I build to keep them in hay and away from the rain. So click and sway and read and post-ponder these works, spread them to others.

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Moving from faith to real estate, from chemistry to capitalism, triggering corrected poetry, jittering creatures and death and deathless noises.

Click on the link to be taken to the full piece:
http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html

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[NrthrnLord]

11:14 PM on 02/21/2011

Well...ain't that all clever.

[Blodo]

11:41 PM on 02/19/2011

Digital poetry can be awesome. The danger is that anyone who has a drawing or photo manipulation program (i.e. just about everyone in the industrialized world) will be tempted to splash any random assortment of images, scrawls, flash animation and text on a screen and call it "arte". If a person doesn't understand the elements of graphic design, online design and creative writing, the end product is going to be exactly what one would expect.

[heliopod]

12:10 AM on 02/23/2011

Although that is likely a critique of my work, I do find there is a conflict between online/graphic design and some net-art/digital poetry. But yes, most of us are still experimenting, trying to find the space between genres, trying to find ways to adapt and rethink poetry in a digital context. Mine just happens to be messy and abstract. Do include some examples of work you love, as I'm sure others would love to see them.

[Hanksingle]

12:16 PM on 02/19/2011

I don't know if the idea of visitors reached is the ideal measure of quality. A lot of people watch, and I'll run the risk of sampling from the overtly popular, 'Jersey Shore' and I don't see as how that promotes or improves the human experience, solves any questions or offers any of the balms that any art for can at it's apex. Similarly, FOX is remarkably popular - is that the sort of 'news' that should be promoted? Should people alter their trajectory towards tanning, being a misogynist and voting red just because a lot of people do it? I don't think that is how life should work, let alone art.

Written poetry suffers from numerous stigma of convention - the perilous myth that anyone can do it being foremost and the anti-intellectualism that pervades our culture being next in line - that must be overcome before it can be approached...and then, like much art, a lot of the best of it doesn't stand under a sign that says 'approachable'.

I'm not sure what presented here offers to the human question the best of all arts attempt - though I would hedge that this probably isn't the best the form has to offer - rather it seems more down the line of the pandering to the idea that art is something everyone is capable of 'being successful' at and that is an idea I feel should be glassed by Middle School.

[heliopod]

08:52 AM on 02/19/2011

Anyone care to play with GPS or Locative poetry?

[Danek Greori]

07:36 AM on 02/19/2011

Mr. Nelson, I don't know where YOU've been the last 15 years but "digital poetry" was already defined ages ago, and has been in existence for quite some time Though your particular brand of it looks amusing, it's not what actual digital poetry is. The term itself is broad and covers poetry in many different styles and expressions that all in electronic mediums, but it most certainly includes more than amalgamations of hypertext and images that look trippy when viewed.

[heliopod]

08:50 AM on 02/19/2011

Danek,

Of course I know of the history of digital poetry. And indeed this is no attempt to define the genre as really there is no specific defining mantra. Indeed that is what gravitates most digital poets towards making such works. Do you know of the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization)? Explore http://www.eliterature.org/ (where I'm on the board) Indeed we just released both a new directory of works which includes works far older than 15 years and a new collection (a best of). So if you haven't play there, then explore away. And if you think some works should be added, then contact the editors or sign up and add your own. And certainly my work is not for everyone, but I would argue its far more than just trippy...(although there is that, there is always that)

[heliopod]

09:53 AM on 02/19/2011

Why, oh why did I keep typing the word indeed. Indeed I am indeeded to indeeding..

[Jon McKenzie]

03:36 PM on 02/18/2011

Folks have nothing to worry about, such interactive elements are not (only) the future of literature, but also its past and present. Presently, my 2 yo son curls up with Peter Rabbit on both iPad and boardbook, and lore has it that past of literature carries music, song, and dance of oral traditions, myths, and lore. One of my favorite myths is titled, "Just the Reader and the Text": no body, no chair, no desk, no coffee shop, but an ideal ending! Unfortunately, the kids these days with their intertubes connect literature to games, action figures, imaginary play, etc, so I don't know how this myth will survive, except perhaps through comment threads like this one.

[Krek]

12:24 PM on 02/18/2011

I recall Jeff Bezos talking about the Kindle and how it differed from tablets. He said that his goal was to remove the barrier between the reader and text. No fancy page-turning animations, no color fonts, no bells and whistles - just the reader and the text. This is similar. There is probably an argument to be made for the interaction of textual and non-textual elements in these works, the potential for generating meaning that would not possible in printed editions. But I hope this is not the future of literature. I agree with Jeff Bezos – just the reader and the text.

[eric14]

11:46 AM on 02/18/2011

Ah, I know what it is. It is a decontextualised revisit to the bewildering graphics of course-books in the late eighties through nineties when being ''with it'' meant having the incoherent layout of a teenage magazine combined with the idiotic use of graphics of the cover page of some junk that is on sale at check-outs.

Oh no it isn't.
It's a collaged deconstruction of text with echoes of Dada.
Oh no it isn't.
Mama.

[Soulfest]

11:33 AM on 02/19/2011

I"t's a collaged deconstruc tion of text with echoes of Dada."

and Derrida...