| Dan Sheetz on Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:40:03 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] FW: <nettime> how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace? |
Check this out... ------ Forwarded Message > From: komninos zervos <[email protected]> > Reply-To: komninos zervos <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:14:27 +1000 > To: [email protected] > 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 > -- > komninos zervos bsc(hons) ma(creative writing) > http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/K_Zervos > Convenor > CyberStudies major > School of Arts > Griffith University > Gold Coast Campus > PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre > Queensland 9726 Australia > tel: +61 7 55528872 > fax: +61 7 55528141 > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > ------ End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold