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.Fact|date=July 2008

Authors

The Italian artist, writer and poet Gianni Toti is considered the father of this kind of experimentation. In the early 1980s he 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 specialized teams and cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities.

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, George Aguilar, Philippe Boisnard [Boisnard won the "Multi-media Grand Prize" awarded by the SGDL de France for his video poetry creations.] , Jennifer Bozick and Kevin McCoy, Caterina Davinio, Gary Hill, Philadelpho Menezes, Javier Robledo, Aleesandro Amaducci.

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, Nicholas Tardy, Massimo Mori, Clemente Padìn, and Fernando Aguiar.

Notes

References

*Eduardo KAC, "New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies", "Visible Language" Vol. 30, No. 2, Rhode Island School of Design, 1996
*AAVV, "La coscienza luccicante. Dalla videoarte all’arte interattiva", Gangemi, Rome 1998
*S. BORDINI, "Videoarte e arte", Ed Lithos, Rome 1995
*Caterina DAVINIO, "Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali" ("Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality"), essay with preface by Eugenio Miccini (It/En), Mantova, Sometti, 2002.
*Caterina DAVINIO, “Parole virtuali. La poesia video-visiva tra arte elettronica e avanguardia”, in "Doc(K)s. Un notre web” (book & CD), serie 3, 21, 22, 23, 24, Ajaccio (F) 1999
*Caterina DAVINIO, "Scritture/Realtà virtuali" in "Doc(K)s" (web), 2000
*Sandra LISCHI, "Elettronica, videoarte e poetronica", in Vito ZAGARRIO (a cura di), "Storia del cinema italiano 1977-1985", Guido Lombardi
*Sandra LISCHI, "Visioni elettroniche", Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. Collection: Biblioteca di bianco e nero, Rome/Venice, Marsilio, 2001
*Gianni TOTI, "Il video artista, cattiva coscienza della TV", «Cinemasessanta», 190, January-February 1990.
*Marco Maria GAZZANO, Gianni TOTI, "Immagine & Pubblico. Video", special n. dedicated to video art, , suppl. n. 2/3, April – September, Ente Autonomo Gestione Cinema, Rome 1990
*Gianni TOTI. "Il tempo del senso", in “Internet Catalogue”, XVIII VideoArt Festival, Locarno (CH) 1997

Web

* [http://sprocket.telab.artic.edu/ekac/current/media.poetry.pdf New media poetry Eduardo Kac Editor]
* [http://www.videopoesia.com/index.php?lang=eng&op=home Videopoetry archive]
* [http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/ensaios/davinio.htm Techno-Poetry]
* [http://www.poetryvisualized.com PoetryVisualized.com: Enjoy hours of visual poetry]

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*A. VUILLEMIN, M. LENOBLE, "Littérature et informatique", Artois Presses Université, Arras 1995

ee also

* Video art
* Digital art
* Digital poetry
* Visual poetry
* Sound poetry
* Concrete poetry
* Performance poetry
* Fluxus
* Futurism