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How does concrete poetry develop in digital media?
What is its intention? What is the meaning behind
it? Does the play with the symbolic orders of
language question social patterns as in concrete
poetry in the 1960s? Does it rather aim to free the
word from its representational, designational
function towards the "pure visual"? And how should
one approach it? With a meaning driven soul asking
for the message behind the technical effect and
disparaging any brainless muscle flexing? With a
spectacle driven soul enjoying all the cool stuff
you can do with programming and embracing de "pure
code" as new avant-garde? This essay discusses the
aesthetic concept of concrete poetry and places the
subject into the ongoing discussion of
"software-art" and the aesthetic of the spectacle.
It begins with a look back to the predecessors of
concrete poetry in print media before introducing
to examples of concrete poetry in digital
media.
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