[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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