New Media Poetics

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This collection features writings on poetry created, shared, and experienced through computers, highlighting dynamic works born from the collaboration between humans and intelligent machines. New media poetry encompasses various forms, including electronic documents that users can navigate or rearrange, as well as kinetic, visual, and sound pieces found in online journals and archives such as UbuWeb and PennSound. Unlike traditional print poetry, which typically presents a coherent speaker, new media poetry emphasizes the interaction between humans and technology. The essays and artist statements included delve into the continuities and divergences from historical poetic practices, examining the implications for the future of poetry. By integrating new media poetry into discussions of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, and digital art, this volume enhances our understanding of computers as expressive tools. It showcases visually striking, aurally engaging, and dynamic works while tracing the evolution of new media poetry through various influences, including print and sound poetics, procedural writing, and activist communities shaped by emerging poetics. Contributors include notable figures such as Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, and Marjorie Perloff, among others.