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TechnoPoetry Festival


See below for a description of what the TechnoPoetry Festival was. The following websites will link you to particular artists' websites, and may tell you a little bit more about their work. While the TechnoPoetry Festival is over, the art lives on, and you can see and learn some more about it at the following links.

  • John Cayley - Winner of the 2001 Electronic Literature Organization Award for Poetry. His works include "RiverIsland," a work in which transliteral morphing takes a Chinese poem through various algorithmic forms, and "Speaking Clocks," a piece in which clocks generate language that can bu used to "tell" the time.

  • Eduardo Kac - Kac merges multiple media and biological processes to create hybrids from the conventional operations of existing communications systems. His work includes "Genesis," a work that explores the impact of biotechnology, and holograms of "holopoetry."

  • Camille Utterback - Her work includes "Text Rain," a projected video that playfully invite the user to interact with the cascading letters and words of a poem.

  • Diane Gromala - Her work includes "Biomorphic Typography" which connects the user to a biofeedback device changing the visual character of the font she is writing.

  • Sha Xin Wei - His work includes "Hubbub," which marries speech recognition with dynamic typography and projected video to explore the boundaries between speech and writing.

  • Eugene Thacker - His work includes "Biotech Hobbyist," exploring lotech interventions into biotechnology.

  • Diana Redd Slattery - Her work includes a constructed visual language, "Glide," which explores meanings made when syntax is on the move.

  • Yacov Sharir - Sharir founded two dance companies, lectures on virtual environments, cyperspace, and computerized choreography.

  • Pauline Oliveros - Since the 1960s, Oliveros has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual.


TechnoPoetry Festival 2002, hosted by Stephanie Strickland, the McEver Chair in Writing, and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College, will be held April 1 and 2 at the Wesley Center for New Media in the Skiles Building of Georgia Tech. Interactive exhibits are from 4-10 pm; presentations start at 7 pm.

For more details, read the information below, and see TECHNO-POETRY FESTIVAL.

More TechnoPoetry Festival Information:

From a message from Kavita Philip: "TechnoPoetry Festival 2002 showcases the work of leading artist/poets who use digital techniques. They compose with new linguistic media, including holograms, bio-states, network flows, game structures, interactive multimedia Web installations, and experimental video projects. These forms are often combined with older poetic forms: speech, image, song, alphabetic text, and Chinese characters. Many of the works explore the meaning of the relationships between body, biology, and technology.

"This event brings internationally recognized artists from Europe and New York to the campus, and it also features the work of Georgia Tech media artists and theorists, Diane Gromala, Sha Xin Wei, and Eugene Thacker.

"TechnoPoetry Festival 2002 is produced by poet Stephanie Strickland, and takes place April 1 and 2 from 4:00 to 10:00 PM in the Wesley Center for New Media. Interactive exhibits and reception 4:00 to 7:00 PM, artist presentations and discussion from 7:00 to 10:00 PM. On Tuesday night there will also be a dance performance at 9:30 PM."

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