digital poetry

17 Nov

Lift up your heads, O ye gates

in David Daniels, digital poetry, hyperliterature, new media, shape poetry

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008.

"Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature... His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun."

To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php .

05 Oct

More about Blackbirds, and other items of interest

in digital poetry, fiction, hyperliterature, hyperpoetry, literature, new media

Since I completed my Flash reworking of the Wallace Stevens poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" ( http://edwardpicot.com/thirteenways/ ), it's been featured in a couple of other publications. There's an article about it by Marc Garrett on the Furtherfield website - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=285 - which is one of the most important websites devoted to new media art in the UK; and Katie Haegele has featured it in the "Digitalit" column which she writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer ( http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/8794227.html ).

16 Jul

Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird - complete!

in cyberpoetry, digital literature, digital poetry, e-poetry, electronic literature, hyperliterature, literature, poetry, wallace stevens

"It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow."

I have now finished recreating all thirteen sections of Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as short Flash animations; and I've also built a crab-apple-tree interface for the whole thing.

For readers who have been following this project since February, when it started, the new sections are numbers 3 ("Autumn winds"), 5 ("Inflections and innuendos"), 8 ("Noble accents") and 13 ("It was evening all afternoon").

15 Mar

The Curator's Egg - The Hyperliterature Exchange, March 2007

in digital poetry, electronic literature, hyperliterature, interactive fiction, new media writing, nonlinear fiction

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2007: a review of 'The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One', edited by N Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

"The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC1 for short) contains some extremely powerful, beautiful, clever, amusing and moving pieces of work, but it isn't entirely without flaws..."

To read the whole review, go to http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewelc1.php .

29 Jul

A short history of everything

in digital poetry, hyperliterature, montage, new media, text and images

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A montage of text and images, remixed in Flash from Myron Turner's new media application/poem 'Timeline' ( http://www.mturner.org/Timeline/ ).

The entire history of everything, encompassed in eleven double-page spreads!

http://edwardpicot.com/shorthistoryindex.html

- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange