· Jason Nelson
Since, the technological
advancements people are getting more attracted towards gadgets. Everything is
going digital and poetry is no exception to it.
One such poet who works on digital poetry is Jason Nelson. But what is a digital poetry? It is a form of
electronic literature that is made using computers and a mix of technical
software’s. Digital poetries can also be categorized into different groups, it
could be a hypertext, kinetic poetry, code poetry or computer generated
animation. (“Digital poetry”) Talking about Jason Nelson he is a digital and
hypermedia poet. (“Jason Nelson”). One of his works is called “Sydney’s
Siberia” which is a mosaic that consists of 130 zoom able images. It begins with
a large mosaic and when an area from the mosaic is clicked it generates tiny
clickable images which after further clicks shows up a poetry. The images below shows how the poetry looks like
after various clicks:
1st click
Here is the link where you could explore his works: http://www.secrettechnology.com/
· Merry Hedger
Another poet that uses modern
technology to compose a poem is Merry Hedger. In technical terms, hyperlink is
defined as “a link from document to another location“(“hyperlink”). Hedger
efficiently makes use of this concept to create her poems. She uses hyperlinks
and embeds into it the interpretation of poems.
When a reader clicks on a part of the link it
directs them to another linked poem. The
link generally contains poems, pictures, words etc. The image below is an
example of her work
In the above example when the
letters in red like ‘H’,’P’,’E’ etc are clicked it gives up a word i.e. ‘H’
gives a word “Hard Drive Human”, ‘P’ gives “Patience Fast/Slow” and so on.
It also shows another hyperlink; which when
clicked will show a poetry called Patience. The image that is hyperlinked to
the word “Patience Fast/Slow” is shown below:
In a nutshell, Merry Hedger links several poetries in one
fine piece of art that is made using computer as a technology.
· Johannes Auer
Johannes Auer is a
poet from Germany, and belongs to the era of 1990’s. He is poet that took
concrete poetry to a new level and combined technology with concrete poem. In
short, he made a digital concrete poetry.
A concrete poem usually contains words arranged in a graphical form. While,
in a digital concrete poem the words can move in different directions and can
take different forms. Johannes Auer is one of the famous digital poet in
Germany, some of the examples of his work are concrete_machine, search
triology, worm applepie for doehl etc. In one of his work, he inserts a digital
worm in the apple and creates a concrete poetry that gives the reader a feeling
of a worm eating an apple (Auer). Another example of his work is “Kill the poem”
where a bullet with a word from the poem is fired from a gun which erases the
particular word from the poetry itself. He hence focuses on using animation to
create his works more interesting for his readers. (Auer)
In order to see an animated version of this example go to the link
Link to kill the
poem: http://www.netzliteratur.net/tango/kill/killpoem.htm
· Jim Andrews
Jim Andrews is a Canadian poet who
is also a web artist (Andrews). He generally focuses on e-poetry rather than
the conventional paper poems. He combines various forms of technology like
motion, programming and sound. His love for language and poetries inspired him
to write poems. Since, he was also a web developer he decided to combine both
his interests into one and generate a new form of visual poetry. His works are
colorful and made using codes or software’s. He has a site called vispo.com
where all of his amazing works can be found. Jim Andrews thinks that poetry is far
beyond print and poets are closer to visual artists, musicians and are closer
to scientists and technology (“Currents: E-poets
on the State of Their Electronic Art: Jim Andrew”). Some of his works
include “The Pen”, “Teleporter”, “The Club” etc. The pen is a poetry that reflects his style
of poetry making. In this work he writes the word POEM in different spring
writings and colors (Andrews).
· Dan Weber
Dan weber is a poet and a
multimedia artist. His works are completely different than most of the poets of
his generation. In this world of technology, where more and more poets are
transforming poetries to give them a modern look. Weber uses a completely
different approach where is combines technology with the simplest things around
us. He is poet who works individually but, he also has worked with some other
poets like Jennifer Hill-Kaucher, Reiner Strasser and Dave Grey (“Oh”). One of his individual works is called
“Strings” where he works with the handwritings. He makes the handwritings dance
and gives them the movement so that they resemble like elastic. Weber uses
Flash to convey his thoughts to the readers. In his collection of “Strings” are
various short kinetic poems like argument, flirt, haha, youandme, arms and
poidog (“Strings”). Below is an example of a piece “argument” from Strings.
This how he shows the handwritten words to dance.
WORKS-CITED
- Andrews, Jim. "Jim Andrews." Vispo. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.
- Auer, Johannes. "Johannes Auer." Johannes Auer. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.
- "Currents: E-poets on the State of Their Electronic Art: Jim Andrews."Currents: E-poets on the State of Their Electronic Art: Jim Andrews. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 June 2015.
- "Digital Poetry." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 3 Apr. 2015. Web. 11 June 2015.
- "Hyperlink." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 14 Apr. 2015. Web. 11 June 2015.
- "Jason Nelson." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 15 Feb. 2015. Web. 11 June 2015.
- "Strings." Strings. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.
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