a case on generative art: digital poetry
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Licia Calvi, Paul BuchananTRANSCRIPT
Licia CalviPaul Buchanan
{calvi.l; buchanan.p}@nhtv.nl
A Case on Generative Art: Digital Poetry
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Digital poetry: a challenge
Digital poetry is an umbrella termIts ontological nature is still unclear
blurring of the boundaries between poetry tout court and new media
Digital poetry poses the issue of defining the specific function of both readers and authors
Semiotic process or not?
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Digital poetry: the questions
In how far does digital poetry affect the notion of interactivity?Which approach does it offer to the design of the interaction it implies as well? What do we understand by “design”?
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Digital poetry: the approach
Choragraphyit looks at the poetry work as a whole
“from interface design to interactivity, the written word and code” (Memmott, 2003)
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Digital poetry: the methodology
Analysis of a few digital poemsto draw a common framework for the interpretation and understanding of generative poetryto investigate the amount of experimental composition and the kind of creativity that it allows to authors and the explorative freedom for readers to stretch and explore the limits both in the language and in the tool (i.e., the digital poem).
“Labylogue” (2000)codeworks by Ted Warnell“Concatenation” (2000)
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The discussion
Find the missing link which connects code and text, deep and shallow text Find a model that accounts for the generativity and interactivity digital poetry puts on stage
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Choragraphy
AUTHOR READERPOEMDEEP TEXT
SHALLOW TEXT
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Conclusions
Creativity takes place at interface levelwhere the negotiation between author and reader is staged where the deep and the shallow text representing each of them are reconciled
The “choragraphy” of this approach guarantees a holistic understanding of poem creation
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Questions?
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