p0es1s. Digitale Poesie / exhibition, publication, colloquium

[anna balint]

From: "Friedrich W. Block" <fwblock at uni-kassel.de>

p0es1s. Digitale Poesie

This digital poetry exhibition presents and reflects on the use of 
languages in computers and digital networks: hybrid texts at the interfaces 
of script, image and sound, together with their programming and coding. 
Digital poetry is a creative, experimental, playful and critical language 
art that uses interaction, multimedia, animation, programming and network 
communication. It is also a type of poetry whose very existence requires 
the participation of those attending the exhibition.
The curator for the exhibition is Friedrich W. Block, in cooperation with 
Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer. The chezweitz scenography team developed a distinct 
visual and spatial identity for p0es1s. Digitale Poesie.

Many of the artists will attend the opening on Thursday, 12 February, at 
7:00 pm in the special exhibition hall at the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, 
Berlin.

> Jean Pierre Balpe > Giselle Beiguelman > Simon Biggs > Philippe Bootz > 
Christophe Bruno / Jimpunk > John Cayley / Giles Perring > Johannes Auer, 
Reinhard Döhl, Sylvia Egger, Oliver Gassner, Martina Kieninger, Beat Suter> 
Dragan Espenschied / Alvar Freude > Frank Fietzek > Ulrike Gabriel / Oskar 
Pastior > Loss Pequeño Glazier > Young- Hae Chang Heavy Industries > 
Jaromil > Jodi > Aya Karpinska > Mez > Andreas Müller-Pohle > Jörg Piringer 
> Daniela Alina Plewe > Jim Rosenberg > Stefan Schemat / Heiko Idensen > 
Bill Seaman > Romy Achituv / Camille Utterback > André Vallias > Marek 
Walczak / Martin Wattenberg > Uli Winters / Frank Fietzek > Zeitgenossen

Digitale Poesie will run from 13 February to 4 April 2004, organized by the 
literaturWERKstatt berlin in cooperation with the Brückner-Kühner 
Foundation (Kassel) in the special exhibition hall at the Kulturforum 
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. More than 40 artists from 12 countries are 
presenting various approaches to literary art using computers and the 
Internet.

The publication "p0es1s. The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry" will be 
published by Hatje Cantz to coincide with the exhibition, which will also 
feature an exhibition guide.


p0es1s. Digitale Poesie is an exhibition by the literaturWERKstatt berlin 
in cooperation with the Brückner-Kühner Foundation and with support from 
the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Art Library of the 
Berlin State Museums).

Funded by the Kulturstifting des Bundes
(Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany). 

Colloquium

13 February, 11 am - 6 pm
Lecture room in the Museum of Applied Art
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
Entry: Matthäikirchplatz

"Digital Poetry" - Generic Term or Curatorial Label?
Does a generic term or a term used for orientation like "Digital Poetry" 
carry any aesthetic value, can artists following an entirely individual 
agenda identify themselves with it? Or is it merely a label for propaganda 
that enables curators to fit art into categories?

Short statements by: 
Reinhard Döhl (D), Loss Pequeño Glazier (USA), André Vallias (BRA), Simon 
Biggs (AUS/GB)

The Function of Language in Media Art
What role does language play in new media practice? Is it just one element 
amongst other different media being used - particularly with the computer 
as the integrative medium? Or is language of superior importance, 
especially with respect to the the basal languages of the computer? How 
does the use of language in media art relate to the tradition of language 
art or "the language of art"?

Short statements by:
Giselle Beiguelman (BRA), Romy Achituv (USA/ISR), Daniela Alina Plewe (D),
Bill Seaman (USA)

Intermezzo 
Presenetations:
Philippe Bootz (F): ALIRE
Loss Pequeño Glazier: The Electronic Poetry Center
Zeitgenossen: Webfictions
Johannes Auer: netzliteratur.net

Screen Text vs. Source Text: The question of an "Adequate" Aesthetics of 
the Media
How can digital poetry as language art in digital media deal with the 
demands to represent and reflect the specific mediality: by working in a 
"radical" or "concrete" way with programming languages and the codes they 
are based upon; or by focussing on an aesthetic of the screen which takes 
the perceptions and activities of the user as its point of departure?

Short statements by:
Jean-Pierre Balpe (F), Zeitgenossen (A), Florian Cramer (D)

http://www.p0es1s.net/