> I'm interested in where artists and theorists think E-Poetry will > move/transform in the next five years. > > What kinds of technology seem promising? > Mobile devices? GPS? Paper thin screens? > > Will poetry journals start seeing digital poetry as a staple > of their herd? > > cheers, Jason >
Surely whatever comes along (thinking of a span greater than give years, which seems oddly limiting) will, like capital and sex, sex-capital, seep through available technologies - just as sex and literary cultures colonized / were colonized by newsgroups, mobile device already carry seductions and experimental texts. Why not wire a smart home to reflect a coded sonnet? Practically, I find it odd how quickly hypertext disappeared as a reifica- tion; the well is deeper now. And will surely extend past planar surfaces to 3-dimensional flows - vrml was an early attempt at this. YouTube and Twitter expand everything and everyone - video, interactive or not, embodies a plurality of digital poetics within a somewhat exponent- ially expanding field. Think of YouTube as hypertext - following links from clip to clip, description to description. There seem to be no limits to these directions. Other technologies - inertial motion capture equipment, hacked kindles, embedded linux devices, Wii and all that implies, hacked guitar heroes. Oddly, little seems to have been done with voice-over, at least in my limited experience - Second Life for example has remarkably clear voice settings. Think of digital work which is only audio, which interacts with the listener's voice - and you have something close to the new ipod shuffle... Finally, I've seen no reason why modeling programs - which are excellent for texts (see of course Cayley's use of the cave at Brown) need succumb to 3-space; I would love to see someone rewrite Blender, for example, to reflect a projection of 4-space into 3- which then is mapped by relatively simple project onto the screen. - Alan (promise not to continue) _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
