[syndicate] Re: epoetry2007

[A. G-C.]

Hello Anna, where are you?!

Unfortunatly as a lot of inside unusual things has happened to me so I 
was not available to follow the e-poetry week in Paris... By this way I 
was just able to join Annie Abrahams and her girl's band as it was 
promised. So I'm discovering the global event through your review and 
Bjørn Magnhildøen's evocation.

Coming out of a stress from my home, the object of the show for me 
became to meet the girls of the band (a part of them just known online) 
and to assure my friendship to Annie whose cut up extracted from her 
installation online was really great.

After the show that was a pleasure to discuss round a second good botle 
of vodka... Then it staid tto come back home by driving the car with a 
lot of precaution -- without speed:) I shall remember this crazy short 
party that was not the previous one:)

But I have no regret on the week, because I was afraid of the daily 
program of expert conferences, so much plenty of critical and analytic 
interventions. It appeared to me that it was mostly working as proper 
object of communication of the festival during the week before, instead 
of the performances, and at last holding the place of proper poetry in 
acts, at my view it could not be a good sign of the FR version of this 
international celebration... My regret stays having missed a personal 
meeting with Jim, Bjorn, and you;-)

I hope for bare performances in the city something as events instead of 
performances may be... something that moves the city into virtual view 
and sounds in real dimension and real time of the walk.. real Babylon.

As for the code, I'm not sure that nowaday returning to pure tech arts, 
at the moment the web has become a question of full bandwist  it is to 
say a pure question of multi-communication in real time, as digital 
algorythms to tribute conceptual artificial appearences, or code poetry, 
or whatever else more, they could be yet more something without it's own 
academy;-) the question becomes an expert target. But the realization of 
them in real outside dimension of the city, not as representation or 
spectacle, but environment.

Sorry for my bad english spoking.

All my best,

Aliette

epistolaris at freemail.hu a écrit :
>> codework never existed anyway, kitsch has a long established tradition in
>>     
> which they >should reign as the new masters
>
> well, I just read  some codeworks from 1968, the Algol poems of Noel Arnaud.
> Poetry is  in a simple definition the art of combining the words. And where do
> they come the words? From a larger or smaller vocabulary. Noel Arnaut  took the
> words of a very restricted artificial vocabulary to exploit its poetic
> potential: he made up a whole algolitic delirium of it. As he explained why
> would that be a question at all, when the French  authors classic tragedies for
> instance abstained themselves from using any synonimes of the word glaive ( 
> they never said épée; sabre; lame; fleuret; braquemart; estramaçon;
> flamberge, claymore; colichemarde, cimeterre, yatagan etc instead of glaive).
> Nowadays we hardly have ro deal with any pure medium, they are all mixed, it is
> more and more difficult to call something cinema, poetry, dance <when visual
> signs, sound, music is included in the same work>, though pastry is not a bad
> word, i have to admit.
>
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