Video poetry

Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin(E)-Poetry depending on the length and content of the video work and the techniques employed (e.g. digital technology) in its creation.

Video poetry is a wide-ranging category where very different typologies of works converge. Some video poetry works use digital elaboration to achieve Digital poetry that is entirely generated by software. When absent of digital effects, video poetry is akin to performance works or a poetry reading recorded in video (digital or analogue) but goes beyond the straightforward act of recording to establish a link with video art. In this sense, video poetry is a particular form of video art comprising poetry texts elaborated at various acoustic and visual levels.[1]

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The Portuguese writer and poet Ernesto Melo e Castro is considered the father of this kind of experimentation. In the late 1960s he created his first videopoems. In the early 1980s Gianni Toti began mixing cinema, poetry text, and electronic images to create a new genre called “poetronica”. In general, his video poem operas are films produced with the support of cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities. Gianni Toti could be considered the intellectual father of the term and the most active researcher on the subject, developing several conceptual and artistic derivative artifacts such as "VideoPoemOpera", "VideoSyntheatronica", "VideoPoemetti", among others.

In the late 1980s, Richard Kostelanetz produced video poems and fictions exclusive of kinetic words by using Amiga text programs. These short sequences were collected in randomly accessed DVDs titled, Video Poems and Video Fictions.

Video poetry developed in the 1990s, with short experimental video works and video installations which vary in typology, length, and structure.

Other international authors who have contributed to video poetry as a specific genre exclusive from video art include Arnaldo Antunes, Philippe Boisnard[2], Jennifer Bozick and Kevin McCoy, Caterina Davinio, Gary Hill, Philadelpho Menezes, Javier Robledo. A prominent practitioner and proponent of video poetry is Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States.

Also defined as video poetry are videos without the presence of poetry as text. Some media poems utilize words in motion, emphasized in their iconic and typographical aspects grounded in the Futurist tradition. These pieces are elaborated digitally using animation software and computer graphics. Among the authors who explored this genre in the 1990s are Arnaldo Antunes, Caterina Davinio, the Russian writer and critic Anna Alchuk in collaboration with computer artist Olga Kumeger, and the musician Serguey Letov.

Among sound and performance artists related to poetry performance in video (but emphasizing the specific video language) are Akhenaton, Bartolomé Ferrando, Enzo Minarelli, Xavier Sabater, Litsa Spathi, Nicholas Tardy, Massimo Mori, Clemente Padìn,Gabriele Labanauskaite with group AVaspo and Fernando Aguiar.

N. Bhavani Shankar, Shirva of India has produced 60 video poems. He started making video poetry since 2004. His video poetry starts with a poem. Then the film will be in audio visual form. His first video poetry collection DVD "Tidhiya Haadu" was released on 27th of August 2009. N. Bhavani Shankar himself makes video recording, edits it on a computer, produces music, graphics and all other job related to video poetry. The whole of video poetry is his own creaton. see N. bhavani shankar, shirva

In Bengal (West Bengal) Mrigankasekhar Ganguly and Joydeep Banerjee has directed poems named 'Bodnaam'and ‘Desh’. 'Bodnaam ' was released on 4th august RABINDRA SADAN RJ RAJA's CONCERT. And Desh released on the occasion of Independence Day of INDIA has already been promoted more than fifteen websites. And it can be easily assumed that more than 100,000 people have already enjoyed few Bengali video-poems.

A Finnish videopoet J.P. Sipilä got his DVD of videopoems published when a small publisher poEsia released the DVD called "katso kun silloin olen kunnossa / see when it seems I am ok" on October 2009. The DVD collection, got official ISBN-number from the national library of Finland, which means that the DVD is classified as a book. Sipilä has been working with videopoetry since 2006.

Notes

  1. ^ Caterina Davinio, Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality), essay (It/En), with preface by Eugenio Miccini Mantova, Sometti, 2002.
  2. ^ Boisnard won the Multi-media Grand Prize awarded by the SGDL de France for his video poetry creations.

References

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General Bibliography

. "Literary Videotapes" in The New Poetries and Some Old. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1991.

See also