Net-poetry
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Net-poetry is a development of net.art, related to experimental poetry, new media poetry and performance. This experimentation is born in Italy in 1998.
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[edit] Short History
Net-poetry begun in Italy in 1998 with the web site Karenina.it (Poetry in Phatic Function), created by the new media artist and writer Caterina Davinio. For Roman Jakobson "phatic" is the function of the language that mantains open and operative the channel among the interlocutors. Karenina.it Internet project focalizes on communication as material of art, not only on cultural contents. In Karenina.it the limit among poetry, art, critic, information, is cancelled; performance poetry is, in this case, a movement of data and information in network: the web site as virtual place where “action” is in the "gesture" to put in motion telematic communication, with images, digital sound, web ready made, but also beyond them.
[edit] Authors
Karenina.it project involved many artists and poets from everywhere: among the participants historical performance artists, visual poets, theorists, sound poets, literary and art critics such as: Caterina Davinio, Julien Blaine, Clemente Padin, Philadelpho Menezes, Mirella Bentivoglio, Eugenio Miccini, Lamberto Pignotti, Tomaso Binga, Massimo Mori, Francesco Muzzioli, Marco Maria Gazzano, and many young new media artists. Karenina.it collaborated several times in Venice Biennale projects.
[edit] Net-poetry at the Venice Biennale 2001
Net-poetry is for the first time in the Biennale di Venezia 2001 - Harald Szeemann curator – with the on line event "Parallel-Action-Bunker", realized by Caterina Davinio in the context of Bunker Poetico, installation by the artist Marco Nereo Rotelli, which involved 1.400 international poets. “Azione-Parellala-Bunker" (Parallel Action-Bunker) on line is coordinated and contemporaneous with real performances at Orsogrill delle Artiglierie in Venice. With this event is born a complex system of relations among multimedia, real and virtual poetry events, which complete and determine each other in a circulation of materials, data, communication, contacts. It is a new structure of poetry work, nearby happening, Fluxus, e-mail art, and relational art.
[edit] Other Net-Poetry events
Other net-poetry events created by Davinio in collaboration with many international artists and poets:
- Global Poetry (21-27 March 2002) Multi-located event with contemporaneous performances, screenings and readings in Italia, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France, and other countries. 122 involved poets and artists. Web sites and video documents. This project has been linked in October 2003 on the official web site of the 50th Venice Biennale, in the context of the project BlogWork-The ArtWork is the NetWork (50th Venice Biennale – ASAC, Venice). This project is part of Rhizome Net.art database (NYC – USA).
- GATES (July 4th – December 31st 2003), Dedicated to Pierre Restany. 150 international artists involved. Coordinated multi-located performance, screenings and readings in Italia, USA, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Morocco, and other countries, 2002. Web sites and video documentation. This project has been linked in October 2003 in the official web site of the 50th Venice Biennale, in the context of the project BlogWork-The ArtWork is the NetWork (50th Venice Biennale – ASAC).
- Virtual Island, 2005, on line event in the context of Isola della Poesia, collateral exhibition of the 51st Venice Biennale. 500 involved poets. Isola della poesia was a real installation done of light, created by the artist and architect Marco Nereo Rotelli on San Secondo Island, in Venice. Curator: Achille Bonito Oliva. This real installation had a virtual space on line called Virtual Island (created by Caterina Davinio in collaboration with the national newspaper La Repubblica), where poets from the world could leave a poem during the Venice Biennale. Among the participants emerging and established poets, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fernanda Pivano, Adonis. The opening of this event was on the ship Il Doge, navigating at night in the Venice Lagoon during the Biennale opening. Poetry readings and fest on board (video document).
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[edit] Poetry Hypertext and Interactive Environment on Line
Other pioneer artists created a different kind of net-poetry, as interactive environment on line including animated text and digital poetry: Ana Maria Uribe, Reiner Strasser (interactive video-sound poetry), Jim Andrews (vispo.com). Other artists intend net-poetry as interactive hypertext poetry/narration that can be adapted for Internet, among them: Deena Larsen (Marble Spring, interctive poetry hypertext in CD ROM, 1993, Disappearing Rein, 1999), Robert Kendall (Frame Work, 1999, a Study in Shades, 2000), and others. Some artists consider net-poetry simply digital poetry published on line or specifically created for the Internet.
[edit] Links
- Jim Andrews
- Agricola de Cologne (media art, curatorial project, database)
- Reiner Strasser
[edit] References
- Caterina Davinio, Techno-Poesia e realtà virtuali" (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality), essay. Preface by Eugenio Miccini. Collection: Achivio della poesia del '900. Italian/English, Mantova (I), Sometti Publisher, 2002. ISBN 88-88091-85-8
- AAVV, Scritture/Realtà, atti del convegno, Milano, Milanocosa, 2002
- Marco Nereo Rotelli, Bunker poetico, La poesia come opera, 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte La Biennale di Venezia, Porretta Terme (BO), I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 2001 ISBN 88-86861-49-4
- 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte Platea dell'umanità, La Biennale di Venezia, catalogue, Electa 2001
- La Biennale di Venezia, 51ma esposizione internazionale d'arte, Partecipazioni nazionali - Eventi nell'ambito, catalogo Marsilio, ISBN 88-317-8800-0
- "Info Brésil", 15 nov. - 15 déc. 2003 ISSN 0980
- Caterina Davinio, "Net-Performance: Processes and Visible Form", in "Doc(k)s", 2004, Ajaccio, F, ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004, commission paritaire 52 841
- Caterina Davinio, Paint from Nature, net-art performance dedicated to the Twin Tower attac. In "Doc(k)s", paper and CD, 2001, Ajaccio, Francia, ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004, commission paritaire 52 841
- "Premio Oscar Signorini 2003", interview by Silvia Venuti, in: "D'Ars", anno 43, n. 175-176, Milan, Dec. 2003, ISSN 0011-6726
[edit] Web References
- Isola della Poesia - La Repubblica News (it)
- Techno-Poesia (Portuguese)
- Karenina.it (En)
- Karenina.it (It)
- (En, Fr)
- (Fr)
- Doc(k)s(Fr)