Aesthetics of Noise in Digital Poetry
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Maria Engberg |
| Title: | Aesthetics of Noise in Digital Poetry |
| Journal: | CyberText Yearbook |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Pagination: | 40 pages |
| ISSN: | 1457-6899 |
| Publisher: | University of Jyväskylä |
| Other identifiers: | http://cybertext.hum.jyu.fi/articles/138.pdf |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Planning and Media Design (Sektionen för planering och mediedesign) School of Planning and Media Design S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/dsn/ |
| Authors e-mail: | maria.engberg@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this essay, I analyze the phenomenon of digital poems represen-tative of the use of a visually “busy” and typographically dense aesthetic.1 As my primary examples I investigate three poetic works: Spawn by Andy Campbell, Diagram Series 6 by Jim Rosenberg, and Leaved Life by Anne Frances Wysocki. I argue that a dominant aesthetic technique of these works, which I propose to call “visual noise,” is generated by a tactilely responsive surface in combination with visual excess which requires an embodied engagement from the reader/user in order for a reading to take place.2 I focus on visual noise, excluding for the moment the common and widespread practice of sonic noise. Analyses of sound and practices of sonic noise in literary practice are an important twin to the analyses I offer here. |
| Subject: | The Humanities\English Technoscience Studies\General The Humanities\Comparative Literature |
