Comments for ePoetica

Comment on final, finally by davin

davin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:26:41 +0000

Zephyr, this is a great final post. It was really hard to visit your friend’s myspace page… but at the same time… a really powerful vehicle for thinking about mortality, authority, and digital media. Thank you, especially, for giving me a glimpse of the mourning process.

As I have been working the last few years, I keep coming back to questions of authenticity, presence, and the post-human. I think that death is one place where the overwhelming weight of humanity (both in the end of the individual and the reverberation this loss sends through the communities to which that person belongs) can show itself to us in a powerful way. Even though this loss is not personal to me, I cannot help but feel its gravity in the many messages left on his myspace page.

Usually such intimate things don’t make it into academic discussions. But it really adds some perspective to my work…

Thank you.

Comment on Week 5: abstraction, emergence by heliopod

heliopod — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:46:27 +0000

I must say that Lori’s insights throughout this process have been brilliant. And I am charmed both by her words, but also her enthusiasm for the topic. If we had more Lori’s out there spinning out works/words
then e-poetry would be a much bright realm. Can we clone you?

Comment on Dora and Eliza converse by Blog Comment Poster

Blog Comment Poster — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:58:22 +0000

To be honest, all this stuff about sounds confusing for me…

Comment on Week Four: open.ended by Lori Emerson

Lori Emerson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:56:41 +0000

I’m not sure if Zephyr or Heliopod will be notified of my note here, but thanks so much to both of your for reading and responding (and so sorry it’s taken me ages to acknowledge you–).

Z: I love your idea of a movement between materials – I wonder what it would look like? Maybe something like the “interface free” touch screen that was introduced last year? Little compares to the pleasures of touching a book or a book object – I imagine your comic journal as a box of loose cards that can be arranged and rearranged, over and over again. what could replicate this experience in the digital realm?

H: that’s great you mention the futurists – I haven’t done much reading on them but I’m still fascinated with the few Marinetti statements I know of where he talks about his dream of a cinematic poem…

Comment on Week 4: Responding to Lori and Zephyr by Lori Emerson

Lori Emerson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:46:02 +0000

Huh – heliopod’s comment is really interesting as is your post Davin – and my apologies for only getting to it now! In fact, I may like your interpretation of chance (as “an experience of reflection. What happened? What did I do? What might I have done? What should I have done? Chance is experienced is a process of reflection, in which we meditate upon how now might have been different. Or why now is the way it is”) better than my own – it’s more convincing, maybe because that’s how it operates in my everyday life. And chance-based poems are enactments of the coming-together of countless different elements to create…x. Then again, as I think more about it now while writing to you, I don’t wonder about what I could have or should have done, but about the coming-together of events that caused x to happen (whether it’s a digital poem or a car accident). Just some casual thinking here to acknowledge your post –

Comment on week 4.1: chance timing (atmospheric context) by zephyr

zephyr — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:11:46 +0000

that’s a great idea… like a point n’ click flash game, but embedded within a ‘standalone’ video. i’d be really interested in playing around with that, time to learn flash as well as final cut, i s’pose.

Comment on A slow, pervasive, crumbling feeling… by heliopod

heliopod — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:35:40 +0000

where is that wire going in the first photo? or where did it come from?

Comment on Week Four: open.ended by heliopod

heliopod — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:33:45 +0000

Lori….

You brilliantly weave ideas and poetics in this post. Bravo…really…bravo….

As far as 3-d structures, I am fascinated by futurists predictions that one day we will truly have virtual/holosuites or some such real world interactive spaces. And then I consider early and current experiments with 3-d and I find sadly that we have not even come close to exploring the possibilities and wonders of late 90s 3-d technologies/playthings. Let alone how we use and create with current techs and future possible iterations. So it would seem that revisiting these “older” forms would be a grand idea for our wee little field.

Comment on week 4.1: chance timing (atmospheric context) by heliopod

heliopod — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:27:51 +0000

I’ve been toying around with the idea of creating an annotation engine for video clips. As the video plays, a user would pause and explore the stopped frame, searching for interactive content that annonates that frozen picture. The cotent/poetry/media would then change depending on how the video changes.

To refer back to the previous, or later post about depth, this would create added layering to how we understand our experiences. This in fact is really easy to do in flash, and I am surprised few are actually exploring this….does anyone know of any examples?

Comment on Week 4: Responding to Lori and Zephyr by heliopod

heliopod — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:24:11 +0000

Depth it seems is a better way of describing hypermedia/digital poetry than branching. When I create new works I love to hide layers, add extras where they would rarely be found. And thus I am trying to create a depth, in the same way we experience depth, lets say while driving. We might be concentrating on the road or the driver in front, but the depth of the landscape constantly filters into our experience. Small signs, cows running, glimpses of alleyways, all create depth, ever branching stories and multimedias loosely connected by our driving.

You mention reflection which I would suggest is the same as interact or create, at least when I consider digital poetry. The user reflects by existing/crating within/interacting with the artwork.