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Archive for January, 2011
Music to look at vs. music to be listened to January 17, 2011: Harriet occasionally posts about concrete and visual poetry, or other work that highlights the visual aspect of reading and composition. Similarly, we came across this blog post by Bibliodyssey, which presents the the "visual context of music." The post consists mainly of scanned pages of graphic musical scores, which evade standard notation and [...]
The emotional hang-ups of Google’s poetry translation software January 17, 2011: Google researcher Dmitriy Genzel talks to NPR's All Things Considered about the advancements in training artificial intelligence to recognize, translate, and maintain the characteristics of poetry. Last week, IBM pitted its computer Watson-- programmed to understand human speech-- against Jeopardy! champions and carried the day (or at least the [...]
MASS January 17, 2011: 17. I’ve written of failure in a poem as rubble, mess I could mess with. Of how I thought that syntactic ruin was a byproduct of revision—mistakes and accidents to delete. And of how I came to recognize that a finished poem could document and display the act of working something from the wreckage. 18. In effect, the poem may perform an [...]
Svoboda in Sudan January 14, 2011: Terese Svoboda writes for The Rumpus about teaching writing in Sudan. The article is noteworthy not simply for Svoboda’s descriptions of her experience, but for the questions it engages, primarily inspired by Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s insistence that African writers should write in their native languages, as a way of “de-colonizing the mind.” [...]
Three Holy Grails, Seven Types of Crisis, and a Partridge… January 14, 2011: Brian Kim Stefans keeps up the good work of publicly posting his class and conference materials, and making available resources for the study and theory of electronic literature. Most recently, he’s posted a handout for a talk he gave in 2008, which elaborates the three “Holy Grails” of electronic literature, and seven types of “crisis” [...]
Warhol as Time-Traveler January 14, 2011: Joeyelle McSweeney writes on the Montevidayo blog about anachronism and Andy Warhol. Curiously, though, she is not writing about Warhol’s art as much as his self-narration. First she sets up the question of anachronism in terms of time and art: My thinking goes that Art is a kind of Anachronism, breaking into, collapsing, and convulsing [...]
Video and poetry meet in Italian festival January 14, 2011: Trevigliopoesia's La Parola Immaginata is "a festival dedicated to poetical words and video images with the aim to reach a mix of art expressions through new strategies, conceptions and methods. Video poetry means poems connected with all kind of images. And videoportraits, videodocumentaries and animation about poets and poetry." To [...]
Poems for transforming sorrow January 14, 2011: The University of Arizona Poetry Center has posted three poems that represent why "people turn to poetry in times of crisis." Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin, whose poem To the New Year University of Arizona President Robert Shelton read at a memorial for the victims of the January 8th shooting in Tucson, believes that poetry fills that void "because [...]
Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Head is Rebuilt January 14, 2011: In 2005, the robotic head of Philip K. Dick was unveiled at NextFest. The robot head, produced by a collaboration between Hanson Robotics, the FedEx Institute of Technology and the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas Arlington, was life-like and was programmed to respond to visitors’ questions, kind of like a [...]
It’s like YouTube 2, but not… January 13, 2011: Jupiter 88 is a brand new video journal blog magazine thing edited by CA Conrad. We don’t know what the name of the journal refers to (a sloppy google search revealed only the existence of a band by the same name, to which we assume Conrad is not referring but who knows, maybe it's a car? Like the Delta 88?), and we don’t know how regularly [...]