[-empyre-] to all members: what is e-poetry to you

[Simon Biggs]

This might be poetry ­ sub Bob Dylan ­ but I wouldn¹t call it e-poetry. For
something to be e-poetry (or digital poetry) it has to depend on a
computational system to exist. The piece on vimeo could be done with
conventional analogue electronic systems. It could be done with film using
mechanical and chemical processes. Most works commonly referred to as
e-poetry are misnamed.

The key to digital poetry is that it involves a particular type of writing ­
a writing that is computational. Computers are language systems, symbolic
machines, and when deployed within a certain frame the result is digital
poetry. Simply using a computer to make something does not make that thing
digital in its mediality.

Regards

Simon


On 6/3/09 01:00, "empyre-request at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au"
<empyre-request at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> this is epoetry:
> 
> http://vimeo.com/3431670



Simon Biggs
Research Professor
edinburgh college of art
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