[Leonardo/ISAST Network] NEW MEDIA POETICS now available from The Leonardo Book Series

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NOW AVAILABLE from The Leonardo Book Series and MIT Press

NEW MEDIA POETICS: Contexts, Technotexts and Theories
by Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss

New media poetry--poetry composed, disseminated, and read on 
computers--exists in various configurations, from electronic documents 
that can be navigated and/or rearranged by their "users" to kinetic, 
visual, and sound materials through online journals and archives like 
UbuWeb, PennSound, and the Electronic Poetry Center. Unlike mainstream 
print poetry, which assumes a bounded, coherent, and self-conscious 
speaker, new media poetry assumes a synergy between human beings and 
intelligent machines. The essays and artist statements in this volume 
explore this synergy's continuities and breaks with past poetic 
practices and its profound implications for the future.

By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, 
interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms, New 
Media Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as an 
expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, 
aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media 
poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural 
abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by 
emergent poetics.

Contributors:
Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, Alan Filreis, Loss Pequeño Glazier, 
Alan Golding, Kenneth Goldsmith, N. Katherine Hayles, Cynthia Lawson, 
Jennifer Ley, Talan Memmott, Adalaide Morris, Carrie Noland, Marjorie 
Perloff, William Poundstone, Martin Spinelli, Stephanie Strickland, 
Brian Kim Stefans, Barrett Watten, Darren Wershler-Henry

Adalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the 
University of Iowa.

Thomas Swiss is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the 
University of Iowa.

release date: June 2006
The MIT Press
A Leonardo Book
ISBN 0-262-13463-2. 416 pp., 92 illus.

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