UM OLHAR SOBRE A POESIA DIGITAL: PROCEDIMENTOS E PRÁTICAS.

Abstract

This study investigates a range of poetic works created with and disseminated through digital computer media, for their visual, kinetic, and textual practices. We seek to articulate an analytic method grounded in close readings of selected poems out of several contemporary subgenres chosen to focus on poetic practices that raise questions about spatiality, temporality, kineticism, and word-and-image construction. Our chief interest lies in the systematization of the management procedures to access cyber poetry as a poetic form that emerges and is orchestrated in digital media and the forms of engagement presented to the reader. We focus the study on three clusters of poems, the poetic events, the cinematographic poems and visual noise poems. In this study, the attention to the material is applied on the analyzed digital poems. We base on the N. Katherine Hayles s analysis of media. In studying the selected digital poems, we highlighted their spatiotemporal properties and the kinetic and word-picture constructions. We dealt with Flash and animated Poems in the visual noise poetry. We argue that the reader/user s active embodied engagement that is required in the poems analyzed in chapter two and the denial of an active participation in the poems of chapter three is part of the materiality of the works. We emphasize that digital poetry is in a field that is expanding and changing, we dare to say that the poetic writing exploration and experimentation in the age of new media has just begun.