Video poetry
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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.
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 cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities. Gianni Toti
could be considered the intellectual father of the term and the most active researcher on the subject, developing several conceptual and artistic derivative artifacts such as "VideoPoemOpera", "VideoSyntheatronica", "VideoPoemetti", among others.
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
, Philippe Boisnard, Jennifer Bozick and Kevin McCoy, Caterina Davinio
, Gary Hill
, Philadelpho Menezes
, Javier Robledo. A prominent practitioner and proponent of video poetry is Billy Collins
, former poet laureate of the United States.
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, Litsa Spathi
, Nicholas Tardy, Massimo Mori, Clemente Padìn,Gabriele Labanauskaite with group AVaspo and Fernando Aguiar
.
N. Bhavani Shankar, Shirva of India has produced 60 video poems. He started making video poetry since 2004. His video poetry starts with a poem. Then the film will be in audio visual form. His first video poetry collection DVD "Tidhiya Haadu" was released on 27th of August 2009. N. Bhavani Shankar himself makes video recording, edits it on a computer, produces music, graphics and all other job related to video poetry. The whole of video poetry is his own creaton. see N. bhavani shankar, shirva
In Bengal (West Bengal) Mrigankasekhar Ganguly and Joydeep Banerjee has directed poems named 'Bodnaam'and ‘Desh’. 'Bodnaam ' was released on 4th august RABINDRA SADAN RJ RAJA's CONCERT. And Desh released on the occasion of Independence Day of INDIA has already been promoted more than fifteen websites. And it can be easily assumed that more than 100,000 people have already enjoyed few Bengali video-poems.
A Finnish videopoet J.P. Sipilä got his DVD of videopoems published when a small publisher poEsia released the DVD called "katso kun silloin olen kunnossa / see when it seems I am ok" on October 2009. The DVD collection, got official ISBN-number from the national library of Finland, which means that the DVD is classified as a book. Sipilä has been working with videopoetry since 2006.
----. "Literary Videotapes" in The New Poetries and Some Old. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1991.
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
in video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
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
Digital poetry
Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers...
that is entirely generated by software. When absent of digital effects, video poetry is akin to performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
works or a poetry reading
Poetry reading
A poetry reading is a performance of poetry, normally given on a small stage in a café or bookstore, although poetry readings given by notable poets frequently are booked into larger venues to accommodate crowds...
recorded in video (digital or analogue) but goes beyond the straightforward act of recording to establish a link with video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
. In this sense, video poetry is a particular form of video art comprising poetry texts elaborated at various acoustic and visual levels.
Authors
The Portuguese writer and poet Ernesto Melo e Castro is considered the father of this kind of experimentation. In the late 1960s he created his first videopoems. In the early 1980s Gianni TotiGianni Toti
Gianni Toti was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" .-Biography:...
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 cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities. Gianni Toti
Gianni Toti
Gianni Toti was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" .-Biography:...
could be considered the intellectual father of the term and the most active researcher on the subject, developing several conceptual and artistic derivative artifacts such as "VideoPoemOpera", "VideoSyntheatronica", "VideoPoemetti", among others.
In the late 1980s, Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz is an American artist, author and critic.He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre 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
Arnaldo Antunes
Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
, Philippe Boisnard, Jennifer Bozick and Kevin McCoy, Caterina Davinio
Caterina Davinio
Caterina Davinio is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art, net.art, video art. She was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.-Biography:Born in Foggia, she grew up in Rome since 1961...
, Gary Hill
Gary Hill
Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
, Philadelpho Menezes
Philadelpho Menezes
Philadelpho Menezes . Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new media poetry, professor in the Communication and Semiology post-graduation program at the Pontifical University of São Paulo...
, Javier Robledo. A prominent practitioner and proponent of video poetry is Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, former poet laureate of the United States.
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
Arnaldo Antunes
Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
, Caterina Davinio
Caterina Davinio
Caterina Davinio is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art, net.art, video art. She was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.-Biography:Born in Foggia, she grew up in Rome since 1961...
, 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, Litsa Spathi
Litsa Spathi
Litsa Spathi is a Greek painter, performer and Fluxus artist, currently living in Heidelberg, Germany and Breda, Netherlands. She makes collages, objectbooks, fluxus poetry and large acrylic paintings. She used to be active in mail art as well. Her paintings belong to the category fantastic realism...
, Nicholas Tardy, Massimo Mori, Clemente Padìn,Gabriele Labanauskaite with group AVaspo and Fernando Aguiar
Fernando Aguiar
Fernando João Lobo Aguiar is a retired Portuguese-born Canadian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder....
.
N. Bhavani Shankar, Shirva of India has produced 60 video poems. He started making video poetry since 2004. His video poetry starts with a poem. Then the film will be in audio visual form. His first video poetry collection DVD "Tidhiya Haadu" was released on 27th of August 2009. N. Bhavani Shankar himself makes video recording, edits it on a computer, produces music, graphics and all other job related to video poetry. The whole of video poetry is his own creaton. see N. bhavani shankar, shirva
In Bengal (West Bengal) Mrigankasekhar Ganguly and Joydeep Banerjee has directed poems named 'Bodnaam'and ‘Desh’. 'Bodnaam ' was released on 4th august RABINDRA SADAN RJ RAJA's CONCERT. And Desh released on the occasion of Independence Day of INDIA has already been promoted more than fifteen websites. And it can be easily assumed that more than 100,000 people have already enjoyed few Bengali video-poems.
A Finnish videopoet J.P. Sipilä got his DVD of videopoems published when a small publisher poEsia released the DVD called "katso kun silloin olen kunnossa / see when it seems I am ok" on October 2009. The DVD collection, got official ISBN-number from the national library of Finland, which means that the DVD is classified as a book. Sipilä has been working with videopoetry since 2006.
Web
- Irish videopoetry
- New media poetry Eduardo Kac Editor
- Videopoetry archive
- Techno-Poetry
- PoetryVisualized.com: Enjoy hours of visual poetry
- Cine-poetry collection
- Animated poems by Billy Collins
General Bibliography
- P. CASTELLIN, J. TORREGROSA, P. BOOTZ, "DOC(K)S/Alire" 10, Series 3, n. 13/14/15/16, Ajaccio (France) 1997
- V. ACCAME, Quale segno, arte scrittura comunicazione, Archivio di Nuova Scrittura, Milano 1993
- "ALIRE", revue sur disquette, Mots-Voir (27, Allée des Coquelicots, 59650, Villeneuve d'Ascq)
- L. ANCESCHI, Progetto di una sistematica dell’arte, Milano 1997
- J.-P. BALPE, "L'Ordinateur, sa muse", in "Pratiques" nº 39, Metz 1984
- J.-P. BALPE, "La position de l'auteur dans la génération automatique de textes à orientations littéraires", in "Lynx" nº 17, Université de Paris-X Nanterre, Nanterre, 1987
- E. BARRET, The Society of Text, Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information, MIT Press, Cambridge 1993
- M. CALVESI, Le due avanguardie. Dal Futurismo alla Pop Art, Milano 1966
- P. L. CAPUCCI, Realtà del virtuale, rappresentazioni tecnologiche, comunicazioni, arte, Bologna 1996
- P. L. CAPUCCI, Arte e tecnologie, Comunicazione estetica e tecnoscienze, Edizioni dell' Ortica, Bologna 1996
- F. CAROLI, L.CARAMEL, Testuale. Le parole e le immagini, Comune di Milano, Mazzotta Editore, Milano 1979
- L. CARUSO, C. PIANCASTELLI, Il gesto poetico. Antologia della nuova poesia d'avanguardia, Portolano, Napoli 1968
- M. COSTA, L’estetica della comunicazione, Castelvecchi, Roma 1999
- M. COSTA, Il sublime tecnologico, Castelvecchi, Roma 1998
- M. COSTA, Tecnologie e costruzione del testo, Napoli 1998
- E. COUCHOT, La technologie dans l'art, De la photographie à la réalité virtuelle, Jacqueline Chambon, Paris 1998
- D. DAVIS, Art and the Future, A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration between Science, Technology and Art, Praeger, New York 1973
- A. D’ELIA (a cura di), Artronica, catalogo, Mazzotta, Milano 1987
- S. DINKLA, Pioniere interaktiver Kunst von 1970 bis heute, ZKM - Cantz Verlag, Karlsruhe 1997
- J. DONGUY, 1960-1985, Une génération. Poésie concrête, poésie sonore, poésie visuelle, Henri Veyrier, Paris 1985
- J. Donguy, Poésies expérimentales—Zones numériques, Presses du réel, 2007.
- U. ECO, Lector in fabula, Milano 1979
- V. FAGONE, L'immagine video. Arti visuali e nuovi media elettronici, Feltrinelli, Milano 1990
- P. FERRI, La rivoluzione digitale. Comunita’, individuo e testo nell’era di Internet, “Mimesis”, collana “Eterotopie”
- F. FOREST, Pour un art actuel, L'art à l'heure d'Internet, L'Harmattan, Ouverture Philosophique, Paris 1998
- C. GOODMAN, Digital Visions, Computers and Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York 1987
- R. KOSTELANETZ, The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature, Prometheus, Buffalo 1982
----. "Literary Videotapes" in The New Poetries and Some Old. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1991.
- D. JACKSON, E. VOS, J. DRUCKER, Experimental - Visual - Concrete: avant-garde poetry since the 1960s, Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 1996
- J. KOSUTH, L'arte dopo la filosofia. Il significato dell'arte concettuale, Costa & Nolan, Genova 1987
- B. LONDON, Video e linguaggio, a cura di The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1989
- F. MENNA, La linea analitica dell'arte moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1976
- P. MASNATA, Poesia visiva. Storia e teoria, Bulzoni, Roma 1984
- E. MICCINI, "Poesie e no", in Théatron, vol.1, Verona 1990
- E. MICCINI, Poesia visiva e dintorni, Firenze 1995
- E. MICCINI, L. PIGNOTTI, Poesie in azione, con introduzione di Pietro Favari, Giubbe Rosse, Firenze 2001
- M. RUSH, New Media in Late 20th-Century Art, Thames & Hudson, London 1999
- "SYMPOSIUM", Ciencias, Humanidades e Letras, anno 5, n. 1, giugno 2001, semestrale dell'Università Cattolica de Pernambuco; numero monografico dedicato a generi e comunicazione
- A. SPATOLA, Verso la poesia totale, Paravia, Torino 1978
- "VISIBLE LANGUAGE" nº 30, 1996
- A. VUILLEMIN, M. LENOBLE, Littérature et informatique, Artois Presses Université, Arras 1995
See also
- Video artVideo artVideo art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
- Digital artDigital artDigital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
- Digital poetryDigital poetryDigital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers...
- Visual poetryVisual poetryVisual poetry is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. It is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry, and at one time was synonymous with it.Visual poetry was heavily...
- Sound poetrySound poetrySound poetry is an artistic form bridging between literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words"...
- Performance poetryPerformance poetryPerformance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...
- FluxusFluxusFluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...