Digital Poemevents: Leaved Life and Spatiotemporal Form
| Document type: | Conference Presentations |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Maria Engberg |
| Title: | Digital Poemevents: Leaved Life and Spatiotemporal Form |
| Conference name: | Modern Language Association |
| Year: | 2006 |
| City: | Philadelphia, PA |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning (Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad) School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tks.bth.se/ |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Using Anne Frances Wysocki’s online multimedia kinetic work Leaved Life as an example, I examine the spatiotemporal specificities of digital poetry. Like a quickly growing number of similar digital poems, Leaved Life foregrounds the materiality of its poetic and visual language as well as the temporal aspects of reading. The reader meets a visually dense and kinetically nervous surface that she / he has to explore in very specific ways in order to make sense of this sensuous and nostalgic poetic text. I argue that in order to read works such as Leaved Life a detailed understanding of their digitally mediated construction (in conjunction with images, sounds, and words) is required which in turn requires a rethinking of critical terms. Since the digital poem exists both as an object and an event, I argue that we are faced with a new convergent form that I propose to call “poemevent.” |
| Subject: | The Humanities\English |
