Digital poetics and digital poetry in NZ opportunities

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Digital poetics and digital poetry in
NZopportunities challenges

• Brian Flaherty

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Digital Poetry
Hormones Raging in Small Town America
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Digital Poetry
e-poetry new media poetry computer poetry
cyberpoetry

• Poetry that cannot exist on the page.
  

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Electronic Literature Collection
http//collection.eliterature.org/1/
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Digital Poetry

• Hypertext 1 2
• Kinetic text 1 2 3
• Codeworks 1
• Programmatic/random 1 2
• Interactive 1
• Multimedia / flash poetry 1

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Technical appropriation
View Source

• ltmeta http-equiv"refresh" content"3
  URLlakegeorge1.htm"gt

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Audio appropriation

• ltembed src"yourclip.mp3" autostart"true"
  loop"true" width"0" height"0"gt

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Flash
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Poets digital toolbox

• HTML editors Frontpage, Dreamweaver, SeaMonkey
• Graphics editors Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp
• Sound editors Soundbooth, Audacity
• Video editors Premiere Pro, MovieMaker
• Flash editors Adobe Flash

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Is it poetry?

• Oh
• The Asterisk Machine
• Otoliths visual poems

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NZ poetry on the Web
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Digital poetics and digital poetry in NZ

• Brian Flaherty