Digital Poetics
WRITING 5001 :: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Digital poetry draws upon a diverse range of traditional and avant-garde literary histories including high modernism, dada, concrete poetry, sound and video poetry, conceptual writing and the Oulipo. While these influences are evident and provide useful reference points for understanding, digital poetry is also fundamentally new, explicitly engaging the computer and internet for both composing and reading, combining human instincts and aesthetics with the languages, codes and systems that underlie contemporary networked culture.

This workshop on Digital Poetic practice is led by Judd Morrissey

No technical experience is required and students are encouraged to embrace the poetic values of both mastery and accident. Readings and resources will include the anthologies of the Electronic Literature Organization, archives of international festivals and exhibitions such as E-Poetry, recent critical texts, print poetry that bears the influence of the digital, and digitally-born poetry translated into book-form.