Friday, April 27, 2007

Elbow Still Swollen After Infection

Eduardo Kac

As a part of the discussion on how concrete poetry evolved from the sixties into other and more visual and complex figures I came across the brasilian born artist Eduardo Kac (b. 1962), who is most famous for manipulating an albino rabbit (who said Alice in Wonderland) so that it, when exposed to light ultravioleet neongreen, looks. This brings forward a whole discussion about nature versus culture, moral questions on so on. In this context however homepage Eduardo Kac is interesting because of his 'invention' of the term "holopoetry" which as far as I can see is written poems like holograms, but have a look for yourself at his

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A difficult recommendation

For the moment I'm fighting my way through Monika Schmitz-Emans book The Language of modern poetry (1997, Munich: Fink Verlag) Which contains some interesting discussion about modern concrete poetry and especially the part "Positive and negative aspects of writing poetry. poetry "is inspiring. Here she clearly describe how concrete poetry is inspired from Kandinsky (1866-1944) and his distinction between abstract and concrete. Furthermore she describes how the barriers between the genres disappears as a direct result of concrete poetrys way of seeing the work of art just as a thing amongst other things.

Friday, April 20, 2007

How To Stain Ikea Table

Iterature

This time would like to draw attention to the french artist Christoph Bruno who is experimenting with search-engines as a way of creating poetry, my personal favorite is his "epiphanies" (a name taken from Joyce) where you enter a word and the machine generates haiku like poems from fragments of text found on the net. The homepage is called Iterature.com