Net-poetry is a development of net.art, related to experimental poetry, new media poetry and performance. This experimentation was born in Italy in 1998.
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Short History
Net-poetry begun in Italy in 1998 with the web site Karenina.it (Poetry in Phatic Function), created by the new media artist and writer Caterina Davinio. For Roman Jakobson "phatic" is the function of the language that maintains open and operative the channel among the interlocutors. Karenina.it Internet project focalizes on communication as material of art. In Karenina.it the limit among poetry, art, critic, information, is cancelled; performance poetry is, in this case, a movement of data and information in network: the web site as virtual place where “action” is the "gesture" to put in motion telemathic communication, with images, digital sound, web ready made.[1][2]
Authors
Karenina.it project involved many artists and poets: participants included historical performance artists, visual poets, theorists, sound poets, literary and art critics, such as: Caterina Davinio, Julien Blaine, Clemente Padin, Philadelpho Menezes, Mirella Bentivoglio, Eugenio Miccini, Lamberto Pignotti, Tomaso Binga, Massimo Mori, Francesco Muzzioli, Marco Maria Gazzano, and many young new media artists.[3]Karenina.it collaborated several times in participative projects in the context of the Venice Biennale .
Net-poetry at the 49th Venice Biennale, 2001
Net-poetry is for the first time at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 - Harald Szeemann curator – with the on line event "Parallel-Action-Bunker", realized by Caterina Davinio in the context of Bunker Poetico, collaborative installation by the artist Marco Nereo Rotelli, which involved 1.000 international poets.[4] “Azione-Parellala-Bunker" (Parallel Action-Bunker) on line was coordinated and contemporaneous with real performances at Orsogrill delle Artiglierie in Venice.[5] With this event was born a system of relations among real and virtual multimedia poetry events, which completed and determined each other with a circulation of materials, data, communication, contacts, a new structure of poetry work, nearby happening, Fluxus, e-mail art, and relational art.
Other Net-Poetry events
Other net-poetry events, created by Davinio in collaboration with many international artists and poets, were:
- Global Poetry (21-27 March 2002): multi-located event with contemporaneous performances, screenings and readings in Italia, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France, and other countries. 122 poets and artists were involved, with web sites and video documents. This project was linked, in October 2003, on the official web site of the 50th Venice Biennale, in the context of the on line project BlogWork-The ArtWork is the NetWork (50th Venice Biennale – ASAC, Venice). This project was also part of Rhizome Net.art database (NYC – USA).
- GATES (July 4 – December 31 2003) was dedicated to Pierre Restany. 150 international artists were involved in a multi-located performance, with screenings and readings in Italia, USA, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Morocco, and in other countries. Web sites and video documentation were realized. This project was linked in October 2003 in the official web site of the 50th Venice Biennale, in the context of the on line project BlogWork-The ArtWork is the NetWork (50th Venice Biennale – ASAC).[6][7][8]
- Virtual Island, 2005, was an on line event created in the context of Isola della Poesia, collateral exhibition of the 51st Venice Biennale. 500 poets were involved. Isola della poesia was a real installation created by the artist and architect Marco Nereo Rotelli on San Secondo Island, in Venice. Curatorof this event in Venice was the critic Achille Bonito Oliva. This real installation had a virtual space on line, called Virtual Island, created by Caterina Davinio in collaboration with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica),[9][10] where poets from the world could leave a poem during the Venice Biennale. The participants included emerging and established poets, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fernanda Pivano, Adunis.[11] The opening of this event was on the ship Il Doge, navigating at night in the Venice Lagoon during the Biennale opening. Poetry readings were realized on board (video document).
External links
Poetry Hypertext and Interactive Environment on Line
Other pioneer artists created a different kind of net-poetry, as interactive environment on line including animated text and digital poetry: Ana Maria Uribe, Reiner Strasser (interactive video-sound poetry), Jim Andrews (vispo.com). Other artists intend net-poetry as interactive hypertext poetry/narration that can be adapted for Internet, among them: Deena Larsen (Marble Spring, interctive poetry hypertext in CD ROM, 1993, Disappearing Rein, 1999), Robert Kendall (Frame Work, 1999, a Study in Shades, 2000), Mendi Obadike (Keeping Up Appearances, a hypertextimonial, 2001 ) and others. Some artists consider net-poetry simply digital poetry published on line or specifically created for the Internet.
External links
- Jim Andrews
- Agricola de Cologne (media art, curatorial project, database)
- Reiner Strasser
References
- ^ [1] Digital Visions juried virtual on-line exhibition 2003, at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
- ^ Caterina Davinio, Techno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality), essay. Preface by Eugenio Miccini. Collection: Achivio della poesia del '900. Italian/English, Mantova (I), Sometti Publisher, 2002. ISBN 88-88091-85-8, pp130-133, pp. 85-89.
- ^ Caterina Davinio, Techno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality), ibid.
- ^ Marco Nereo Rotelli, Bunker poetico, La poesia come opera, 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte La Biennale di Venezia, Porretta Terme (BO), I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 2001 ISBN 88-86861-49-4, p. 245
- ^ [2] Parallel Action-Bunker
- ^ "Premio Oscar Signorini 2003", interview by Silvia Venuti, in: "D'Ars", anno 43, n. 175-176, Milan, Dec. 2003, ISSN 0011-6726 p. 95
- ^ http://www.artecontemporanealombardia.it/archivi/2003/12/18/mostra/4800.html
- ^ GATES GATES Web Site
- ^ La Biennale di Venezia, 51ma esposizione internazionale d'arte, Partecipazioni nazionali - Eventi nell'ambito, catalogo Marsilio, ISBN 88-317-8800-0, p 177
- ^ Isola della Poesia - La Repubblica News
- ^ Virtual Island
Sources
- Caterina Davinio, Techno-Poesia e realtà virtuali" (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities), essay (Italian-English). Preface by Eugenio Miccini. Collection: Achivio della poesia del '900. Mantova (I), Sometti Publisher, 2002. ISBN 88-88091-85-8
- AAVV, Atti del Convegno Scritture/Realtà, Milano, Milanocosa, 2002.
- Marco Nereo Rotelli, Bunker poetico, La poesia come opera, 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte La Biennale di Venezia, Porretta Terme (BO), I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 2001. ISBN 88-86861-49-4
- 49ma Esposizione internazionale d'arte Platea dell'umanità, La Biennale di Venezia, catalogue, Electa 2001
- La Biennale di Venezia, 51ma esposizione internazionale d'arte, Partecipazioni nazionali - Eventi nell'ambito, catalogo Marsilio, ISBN 88-317-8800-0
- "Infos Brésil", 15 nov. - 15 déc. 2003 ISSN 0980
- Caterina Davinio, "Net-Performance: Processes and Visible Form", in "Doc(k)s", Ajaccio, France, 2004. ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004, commission paritaire 52 841
- Caterina Davinio, Paint from Nature, net-art performance dedicated to the Twin Tower attac. In "Doc(k)s", paper and CD, Ajaccio, France, 2001. ISSN Doc(k)s 0396/3004, commission paritaire 52 841
- "Premio Oscar Signorini 2003", interview by Silvia Venuti, in: "D'Ars", anno 43, n. 175-176, Milan, Dec. 2003. ISSN 0011-6726
Web Sources
- Isola della Poesia - La Repubblica News (it)
- Techno-Poesia (Portuguese)
- Techno-Poesia (En)
- Karenina.it (En)
- RCCS Techno-Poetry Review
- Karenina.it (It)
- (En, Fr)
- (Fr)
- Doc(k)s(En)
- Inteview Daemon Magazine
See also
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