Reading Suggestions

Media Poetry – An International Anthology

Eduardo Kac
UK, Intellect Books Ltd, 2007
ISBN: 9781841500300
Indispensable and in-depth coverage of text generation methods – with a timeline for the development of the genre from 1921 – 1996. Each chapter by a different author giving a general overview of the many areas covered.

P0Es1S: The Aesthetics Of Digital Poetry

Christiane Heibach, Karin Wenz, Bill Seaman and Eduardo Kac
Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004
ISBN: 9783775713450
Essays by Mark Amerika, Giselle Beiguelman, Friedrich W. Block, Mark Bernstein, Nika Bertram, Simon Biggs, Philippe Bootz, John Cayley, Florian Cramer, Eduardo Kac, Bill Seaman, etc.
POes1S features contributions to an international symposium at Erfurt University, featuring installation, Internet and CD-ROM productions.

Also:
http://www.ekac.org/holopoetry.html
selected texts by Eduardo Kac on holographic poetry
http://www.holonet.khm.de/ekac/allholopoems.html
examples of his holopoetry

Videopoetry: A Manifesto

Tom Konyves
http://issuu.com/tomkonyves/docs/manifesto_pdf
the definitive guide to the various genres within the subject area

www.remixthebook.com
Mark America
‘A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media
Remixthebook explores the mashup as a defining cultural activity in the digital age, tracing the art of the remix to previous forms of avant-garde and modernist art through mashups of deftly sampled phrases and ideas. Mark Amerika captures the unique and continually shifting digital moment in which we live and situates the remix as an art form and literary intervention.’

META/DATA: A Digital Poetics

Mark Amerika
MIT Press, 2007
ISBN-10: 0-262-01233-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01233-1
‘collects the writings of pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika who mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack “digital sampling” of Amerika’s writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world “gone wild” while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika’s own artistic practice.’

Expanding the Concept of Writing: Notes on Net Art, Digital Narrative, and Viral Ethics

Mark Amerika
Leonardo, US, M.I.T. Press, 2004, Vol 37, No. 1, Pages 9-14

35 Years of Visible Writing : A Memoir

Richard Kostelanetz
New York, NY, Koja Press, 2004
ISBN: 0970722486
Synopsis: ‘A memoir from Richard Kostelanetz that breaks thirty-five years of visual writing into fifteen graphically and linguistically packed chapters that re-visit and inhabit anew the formal, visual, and performative experiments with language that drive – and that are – his life’s work.’

Perhaps the most prolific exponent of writing in all forms but particularly relevant for his early work in the filmic medium.

A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens, Oxford, Blackwell, 2008
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
ISBN-10: 1405148640
ISBN-13: 978-1405148641
Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades, Christopher Funkhouser

New Media Poetics – contexts, technotexts, and theories

ed. Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, MIT Press, Cambridge and London, 2006
ISBN-10: 0-262-13463-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-13463-7
Screening the Page/ Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Marjorie Perloff, pp 143-64

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

Marjorie Perloff
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN: 9780226660615

Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries

Loss Glazier
US, University of Alabama Press, 2001
ISBN-10: 0817310754
ISBN-13: 978-0817310752

An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings

George Quasha and Charles Stein,
Spain, Barcelona:Ediciones Poligrafa, 2009
ISBN-10: 8434310422
ISBN-13: 978-8434310421

Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality

Caterina Davinio
Essay (Italian/English) with a preface by Eugenio Miccini Sometti Collana, Collection Archivio della Poesia del 900 Comune de Mantova, Sometti Publisher, 2002
ISBN: 88091-85-8\

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

Craig Douglas Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith
US, Northwestern University Press, 2011
ISBN-10: 0810127113
ISBN-13: 978-0810127111

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

Kenneth Goldsmith
Columbia University Press, 2011
ISBN-10: 0231149913
ISBN-13: 978-0231149914

The Society of Text, Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information

ed: E. Barrett
US, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1991
ISBN: 10: 0-262-52161-X

Digital Visions, Computers and Art

Cynthia Goodman
New York, Harry N Abrams, 1987
ISBN: 9780810923614

Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored Within a Specific Generative Virtual Environment

Bill Seaman, VDM Verlag, Dr. Müller,  2010
ISBN:   3639236513, 9783639236514

Neosentience – A New Branch of Scientific and Poetic Inquiry Related to Artificial Intelligence

Bill Seaman and Otto Rossler, Technoetic Arts, Volume 6, Number 1, 2008

S. Brent Plate

Between Cinema and a Hard Place: Gary Hill’s Video Art Between Words and Images
Criticism – Volume 45, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 109-127

Websites/archives:

www.littlepig.org.uk
the essays of Simon Biggs since 1994
In 1978 Biggs invented a graphic computer system and has since used the computer for his art which includes digital animation, interactive installation, CD-ROMs, Internet and related media.  His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and he has published extensively on the subject.

http://www.wordcircuits.com/kendall/essays/index.html
Robert Kendall
1993-2003  Essays – a valuable mapping of the development of videopoetry

http://heliozoa.com
Jason Nelson
Digital Poetry Interfaces – Recommended for his in-depth demonstration of various types of digital poetry and innovative uses of new technology to create new poetical forms.

www.movingpoems.com
Dave Bonta – the one site to visit for a good overview of the genre

http://www.cornermag.org/corner05/page08.htm
extremely informative and lengthy article on the different genres of experimental poetry in Spain by Laura López Fernández

http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/collserv/campal.shtml
The Julio Campal Experimental Poetry Collection, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

http://telepoesis.net/papers/dpoetry.pdf
Digital Poetry and Collaborative Wreadings of digital texts – Rui Torres

http://www.european-mediaculture.org/fileadmin/bibliothek/english/block_digitalpoetics/block_digitalpoetics.pdf

www.eastgate.com
hypertext fiction
‘information farming’
‘the primary source for serious hypertext’

http://www.poetryvisualized.com/

http://vispo.com/misc/BrazilianDigitalPoetry.htm

http://www.cibercultura.org.br

http://www.letras.ufmg.br/atelaeotexto/ARTIGO_4_POESIA_NA_TELA.html

http://www.thegatesofparadise.com/
David Daniels’ 400 Page Visual Poem:  The Gates of Paradise

http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/lift-your-heads-o-ye-gates
for an account of concrete poet David Daniels

http://wn.com/Video_poetry

http://www.youtube.com/user/ArchivioVoceDeiPoeti?blend=15&ob=5

http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/Videos.php
Irish videopoetry

http://ekac.org/media.poetry.book.html
New media poetry Eduardo Kac Editor]

http://www.videopoesia.com/index.php?langeng&ophome
Videopoetry archive

http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/ensaios/davinio.htm
Techno-Poetry

http://www.cibercultura.org.br/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Ernesto+Melo+e+Castro

http://www.ubu.com/vp/index.html
a site which began in 1996 for visual and concrete poetry; editor Derek Beaulieu -
conceptual writing

http://www.ubu.com/concept/AgainstExpressionTOC-Essays.pdf

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics
First begun in 1997 another source of contemporary historical thinking on the subject as ‘electropoetics’.

www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/grumman/egrumn.htm
For an exploration of minimalist poetry and its historical antecedents

http://poeticks.com/ten-superior-visual-poems/marton-koppanys-poem/bob-grumman-on-poem/

http://www.bigbridge.org/issue11/minimalistinfraverbal.htm
examples of infraverbal poetry – the hidden words in other words causing secondary and tertiary meanings and or vertical meanings to be ‘disconcealed’

www.redroom.com

http://ww2.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/Welcome.aspx
The Sackner archive

www.Poemsthatgo.com
Archives

http://www.fluxus.org
Fluxus