[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace?

["wade tillett" <super89@bigfoot.com>]

studying modes recognize words language poetry before start interpret
process meaning/feeling print visual pattern arrangement lengths
indentations margin phonological elements, rhyme, rhythms translated
oral culture interpret text belonging discourse live stimuli; spotlit
area; microphone; chairs arranged room; performance; open book papers.
phonological signs  projected voice; sound patterns being sounded, web
environments unique recognition stimuli ?


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----- Original Message -----
From: komninos zervos <k.zervos@mailbox.gu.edu.au>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: <nettime> how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace?


> i need help.
>
> i'm studying modes of recognition of poetry.
>
> on the web, how do we recognize words used in language as poetry,
how
> do we know we are having a poem? i mean before we start to interpret
> it or process it for meaning/feeling.
>
> in print we see a visual pattern or arrangement, we see line
lengths,
> we see indentations from the left margin and we visually recognize
it
> as poetry, we see also phonological elements, rhyme, rhythms
> translated from oral culture, we then interpret what we read as
> poetry, or by the special rules of reading a text as belonging to a
> poetic discourse.
>
> in live performance there are visual recognition stimuli; a spotlit
> area; a microphone; chairs arranged in a room pointing towards the
> performance area; a person holding an opened book or papers. There
> are definitely phonological signs we identify also; the poet's
> projected voice (not normal speaking voice); sound patterns (rhyme,
> rhythm, alliteration, assonance) being sounded, which we have learnt
> to recognize as poetry.
>
> in web environments how do i tell if i've come across a poem? is it
> merely the same signs we use to recognize poetry in print and in
live
> performance, or are there unique recognition stimuli for
> web/cyber/new/digital/hypermedia poetry?
> do we need visual evidence of text or aural presence of text to be
> poetry in this medium?
>
>
> i would appreciate some thoughts on this
>
> cheers
> komninos
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