Before I could post this... I had to re-learn how to sign in and post... so I could record my thinking on web poetry.
1) searched for web poetry – came up with a lot of e-poems
which were playful and challenge conventional ideas of genre, form , content,
presentation, analysis….
BUT
Did not seem to be any more interactive in terms of
collaborative or fluid production of text… the
reader – or viewer – still more-or-less a viewer – or reader (with the
caveat that all readers produce meanings).
Production of meanings but not construction of arfefact or
particiapeation in performance..
There must be more to this… surely it should be interactive,
participatory, challenging boundaries between author and reader…
So
2) searched for hyper-text poetry
This was more like it
This seems to sum up everything we need to think about ( I
know… Wikipedia again!)
Consider: hypertext poetry, collaborative poetry (writing
and publication), digital poetry, computer generated poetry, different media, interactive
poetry (Interaction allows the
reader to participate and influence the work and their experience of it.)
But then immediately came up against a problem
3) The hyper link to:
was dead – shame as this looks like a very important and
early example of the genre? Form?
So – I searched for
it elsewhere to find that you have to BUY the opportunity to participate in
this poem… leading me to ponder on the relationship between the writer and the reader – has it actually
changed – we have to pay the author to play the poetry-game.
So rather than a collaborator – we are now a customer – a consumer
--- so where is the democratisation
offered by the digital revolution?
4) Decided I need to
do some more reading – found this bibliography but will also ask a friend to
recommend key texts.
5) Definitions here – useful
6) BRILLIANT PLYFUL INTERACTIVE SITES
But again – interesting mix
Some obsolete, some interactive, some just links to video
performances… some linking to sites where you have to PAY…
