"TECHNO-POETRY AND VIRTUAL REALITY",

BILINGUAL ITALIAN /
ENGLISH, SOMETTI, MANTOVA 2002). Introduction by EUGENIO MICCINI.

International video-poetry, computer and web poetry in the 90s until 2002
(130 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS + a special section dedicated to the video
compilations and festivals curated by Davinio the 90s).

ISBN 9 788888 091853

CONTENTS

Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities. History, Theory, and Experiences, in
Writing, Visuality, and New Media

A route in the 90s
Video-performance and performance in video
Videopoetry
Video-Visual Poetry
Computer poetry
Hypertext, Hypermedia, Interactive Pages, Generative Writing
CD ROM Poetry
The Hypertext in the net. A performative attitude
Hierarchy, interactivity and collective creation
Some common features
Net poetry, e-mail poetry, SMS poetry and poetry in phatic function
Art as communication and stratification of the virtual object. A concrete
electronic data processing
The object in the hypermedia and in the net
Conclusions

Artists' List:

COMPUTER POETRY, HYPERMEDIA AND INTERNET


In this section there are artists and groups who produced hypertexts and
hypermedia for CD-ROM or for Internet, generative writing, web projects or
net poetry; authors are also included who realized digital visual poetry,
animations and holograms using the computer.

EDUARDO KAC (Brasile)
DAVID DANIELS (USA)
AGRICOLA DE COLOGNE (Germania)
AKENATON (Francia)
ANA MARIA URIBE (Argentina)
JEAN-PIERRE BALPE (Francia)
PHILADELPHO MENEZES (Brasile)
AUGUSTO DE CAMPOS (Brasile)
ANDREJ TISMA (Jugoslavia)
JASON NELSON (USA)
JIM ANDREWS (Canada)
JUDSON WRIGHT (USA)
LUCIA LEAO (Brasile)
KARENINA.IT (Internazionale)
DANIEL YOUNG(USA)
PATRICK-HENRI BURGAUD (Paesi Bassi)
STANZA (UK)
REINER STRASSER (Belgio / Germania)
VALERY GRANCHER (Francia)
DAVID KNOEBEL (USA)
JULIEN D'ABRIGEON (Francia)
OLIVIER AUBER (Francia)
JIM ROSENBERG (USA)
WILTON AZEVEDO (Brasile)
JAKA ZELEZNIKAR (Slovenia)
ALCKMAR LUIZ DOS SANTOS & GILBERTTO PRADO (Brasile)
JORGE LUIZ ANTONIO (Brasile)
FATIMA LASAY (Filippine)
REGINA CELIA PINTO (Brasile)
ALVARO ANDRADE GARCIA (Brasile)
FABIO DOCTOROVICH  (Argentina)
TOMMASO TOZZI - STRANONETWORK (Italia)
GENCO GULAN (Turchia / USA)
ROBERT KENDALL (Canada/USA)
DEENA LARSEN (USA)
LOSS PEQUEÑO GLAZIER (USA)
MIEKAL AND (USA)
PANOS KOUROS (Grecia)
JORG PIRINGER (AUSTRIA)
TAMAS WALICZKY (Ungheria)
CATERINA DAVINIO (Italia)

PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMERS
(Performance in video, video-performance, computer performance, performance
in Internet)

This section presents very heterogeneous artists referring to used media and
research results, which go from the video document to low definition analog
video, to digital elaborations, to multimedia performance, environments and
installations, performances in Internet. The common aspect is the centrality
of the body and/or of the voice, of sound and gesture aspects of the
concrete presence, even if some of the artists have realized also
not-performative works.

TIBOR PAPP (Ungheria)
DMITRY BULATOV (Russia)
PHILIPPE CASTELLIN (Francia)
THANASIS CHONDROS E ALEXANDRA KATSIANI (Grecia)
BARTOLOME FERRANDO (Spagna)
ENZO MINARELLI (Italia)
XAVIER SABATER (Spagna)
NICHOLAS TARDY - CAROLINE SCHERB (Francia)
MURIEL MODR (Francia)
JOACHIM MONTESSUIS (Francia)
VOLKER SCHREINER (Germania)
MASSIMO MORI (Italia)
LUISA SAX (Italia)
EMILIO FANTIN (Italia)
CLEMENTE PADÍN (Uruguay)
JEAN -CLAUDE GAGNON (Canada)
NINA ZIVANCEVIC (Jugoslavia / USA)
ENNO STAHL (Germania)
GINESTRA CALZOLARI (Italia)
NICOLA FRANGIONE (Italia)
FERNANDO AGUIAR (Portogallo)
JACQUES DONGUY (Francia)
JEAN MONOD (Francia)
WOLFGANG ZIEMER (Germania)
ELLIOTT LEVIN - DIRK BRUINSMA - STEPHEN BUCHANAN (USA)
RYSZARD PIEGZA (Polonia)
CHARLES DREYFUS (Francia)
MARK SUTHERLAND - NOBUO KUBOTA (Canada)

VIDEO
(Videopoetry, filmic poem an poem-video, computer video, video-visual
poetry)

This part of the book encloses artists which have produced heterogeneous
works regarding the techniques, which see a predominant use of audio-visual
media in the form of the video, also digital, realized for the projection
and for the installation.

ARIADNA CAPASSO, NORA CÉSAR, DAMIÁN KELLER (Argentina)
ANNA ALCHUK - OLGA KUMEGER - SERGEY LETOV (Russia)
ALESSANDRA CELLETTI (Italia)
ORBITA (Latvia)
AGATA CHIUSANO (Italia)
ROBERTA TORRE (Italia)
CLAUDIO PALETTO (Italia)
ARNALDO ANTUNES (Brasile)
GIUSEPPE ZIMMARDI (Italia)
JENNIFER BOZICK (USA)
KEVIN MC COY (USA)
MONICA PETRACCI -TECNICHE BLU (Italia)
ANTONIO REZZA - FLAVIA MASTRELLA. (Italia)
FABIO IAQUONE (Italia)
MICHEL CHION (Francia)
MARINA GRZINIC - AINA SMID (Slovenia)
GARY HILL (USA)
MARIA KLONARIS-KATERINA THOMADAKI (Grecia / Francia)
USMIS (Italia)
ELISABETTA FILOCAMO (Italia)
ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI - ARRIGO LORA TOTINO (Italia)
GIORGIO LONGO (Italia)
CHRISTINE RHEYS (Francia)
BRICE BOWMAN (USA)
HALSEY BROWN (USA)
JAVIER ROBLEDO (Argentina)
ANTAL LUX (Germania)
VONDA YARBERRY - JOHN PRESCOTT (USA)
SEBASTIEN PESOT (Canada)
CLAUDETTE LEMAY (Canada)
JOANNA EMPAIN (Canada)
ROBIN DUPUIS (Canada)
BEATRICE BABIN (Germania)
GIANNI TOTI (Italia)
WALTER UNGERER (USA)
ARIAS & ARAGON (Perù)
ISABELLE HAYEUR (Canada)
ROLAND BALADI (Egitto)
GEORGE AGUILAR (USA)
GIOVANOTTI MONDANI MECCANICI (Italia)
DON RITTER (Canada)
GIACOMO VERDE (Italia)
CÉSAR MENEGHETTI (Brasile / Italia)

APPENDIX
In the Appendix can be found some of the projects and festival curated by
Caterina Davinio in the 90s until 2002 (with ALL the names of participating
artists).

CREDITS
Thank-you to the artists included in this publication for the iconic and
textual material
necessary for the writing. To José-Carlos Mariategui and CICV for the
contents
of Gianni Toti 's pages, to Patrick Zanoli for the frame taken from
"Gramsciategui ou les poesimistes", to Jorge Luiz Antonio, and Thomas Bell,
for
helping in the English translation.
Special thanks to Eugenio Miccini, who wanted this book, first Italian
publication dedicated to the research in electronic art connected with the
experimental poetry and with its multiform language.

THE AUTHOR
Caterina Davinio is computer artist, writer, curator. She studied Italian
Literature at Roma University I "La Sapienza". During the 90s she organized
festivals and meetings in many Italian cities, creating a bridge between the
experimental poetry and the circuit of electronic art. She was one of the
first poets who realized animated poetry with the computer in Italy, in
1990. Since 1998 her work appeared in Internet with collaborative projects,
among them Karenina.it, become an international point of reference of poetry
avant-garde. She presented world-wide her work in biennials and festivals
(in more than 70 exhibitions), has published essays about new media poetry,
catalogues, poems and computer poems, a novel (Còlor còlor, 1998). Present
in hundreds of web pages and sites, among them "NY Art Magazine" and
"Rhizome" (NY), and in art and literature experimental reviews (paper and
software): "BoXon" (F), "Doc(K)s" (F), "Art on Line" (Brazil), "JavaMuseum"
(D), and many others.

Tho read a summary of the book and a bibliography see:
Karenina.it
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/kareninarivista.html