Read: Kinetic and Interactive Poetry, Rettberg
Works:
- Dreamlife of Letters, by Brian Kim Stefans
- Sound Poems, by Jörg Piringer
- Shy Boy, by Tom Swiss (more of Tom Swiss)
- The Ballad of Soot and Sand, by Stephanie Strickland
- Cruising, by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar
- A is for Apple, by David Clark
- Tachistoscope, William Poundstone
- Rain on the Sea, by Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
- SOFTIEs and MUDs David Jhave Johnson
Blog: After reading Rettberg’s chapter, explore the works of digital poetry listed above. Choose 2-3 that most interest you for a more in-depth discussion of the works in the context of modernist poetry practices such as “concrete poetry”, symbolism, futurism, visual poetry or “vispo”, sound poetry and film poetry.
IN-CLASS TOPICS/ACTIVITIES:
Live Stream Traversal of Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid: 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzeZQ05p_1Tli0lDBeWMxOA/live
- Twitter: #elitpathfinders
TALK: Digital Poetry
Symbolism:
Stephane Mallarme – A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, 1897
Futurism:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – A Tumultuous Assembly. Numerical Sensibility (1919)
Lettrism:
Isidore Goldstein (Isou) – 1940s
Roland Sabatier.
Concrete Poetry:
Calligramme, by Guillaume Apollinaire (1910s)
Augusto de Campos – 1950s (“egg ball of yarn”)
ee cummings
bpNichol, Still Water, 1970
Sound Poetry:
Hugo Ball, Dada
Moving Text (film):
Marcel Duchamp – Anemic Cinema (1926)
Sunrise, Murnau 1927
1937 Len Lye – “Trade tattoo”
Basic programming language:
bpNichol, First Screening
Flash:
“Nio” by Jim Andrews (2001)
Processing:
Ottar Ormstad, Long Rong Song (2015)
Between Page And Screen, Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse (2012)
- Dreamlife of Letters, by Brian Kim Stefans
- Sound Poems, by Jörg Piringer
- Shy Boy, by Tom Swiss (more of Tom Swiss)
- The Ballad of Soot and Sand, by Stephanie Strickland
- Cruising, by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar
- A is for Apple, by David Clark
- Tachistoscope, William Poundstone
- Rain on the Sea, by Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
- SOFTIEs and MUDs David Jhave Johnson
More E-Poetry:
- I Love E-Poetry – blog by Leo Flores
- Enigma N, by Jim Andrews
- Dan Waber
- Strings, by Dan Waber
- oh, by Jennifer Hill-Kaucher>Dan Waber>Reiner Strasser, January 2005
- Tao, by Reiner Strasser and Alan Sondheim
- SOFTIEs and MUDs David Jhave Johnson
- Typoems & Anipoems by Ana Maria Uribe
- KLUGE: A MEDITATION [2006], by Brian Kim Stefans
Rough draft due next Friday. Make a Google Doc that you can share with your pod for in-class proof reading.