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Poesia Cinética
Ano Lectivo 2010-2011
Mestrado em Poesia e Poética
Docente: Manuel Portela
O uso da animação digital modifica a representação do tempo e do espaço no interior do poema. 'Poesia Cinética' procurará compreender os processos de cinestesia enquanto poética do significante. Observaremos a simulação do movimento de substituição na cadeia dos significantes, característico da linguagem, em vários poemas cinéticos. Veremos como os dispositivos de animação do texto cinético simbolizam na instabilidade dos significantes a instabilidade dos significados, e vice-versa. Esta reflexão sobre a materialidade gráfica e electrónica da escrita e da leitura mediadas por computador será realizada a partir de obras de autores britânicos, norte-americanos, canadianos, australianos, espanhóis, franceses, portugueses e brasileiros. Hiperligações para as obras a estudar encontram-se na página seguinte: http://www.ci.uc.pt/diglit/DigLitWebCdeCineticos.html
A disciplina funciona em regime de avaliação contínua. A classificação final resultará dos seguintes componentes: a) recensão de um item da bibliografia do programa (c. 2000 palavras, 30%); b) trabalho de análise de um poema animado (c. 2000 palavras, 35%); c) concepção de um guião para um poema animado (35%).
Kinetic Poetry
The use of digital animation changes the representation of time and space within the poem. 'Kinetic Poetry' attempts to understand kinaesthesia as a poetics of the signifier. We will look at ways in which the motion in the chain of signifiers, one of the structural features of language, is simulated in several kinetic poems. We will see how specific forms of animating texts symbolize both the instability of signifiers and the instability of meaning. This reflection on the electronic and graphic materiality of reading and writing in new media will be based upon works by British, North-American, Canadian, Australian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Brazilian authors. Hyperlinks for a selection of digital works can be found at the following webpage: http://www.ci.uc.pt/diglit/DigLitWebCdeCineticos.html
Assessment will be continuous (75% attendance is required). It will be based upon the following assignments: a) a critical review of one item chosen from the course bibliography (c. 2000 words, 40% of final grade); b) analysis of one animated poem in essay form (c. 2000 words, 40%); c) presentation of a storyboard for a kinetic poem (35%).
Bibliografia
Aarseth, Espen (1997). Cybertext. Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. See also Introduction and Table of Contents. Edição portuguesa: Aarseth, Espen (2005). Cibertexto : Perspectivas sobre a Literatura Ergódica. Trad. Maria Leonor Telles e José Augusto Mourão; revisão de Luís Filipe B. Teixeira. Lisboa: Pedra de Roseta.
Bootz, Phillippe (2006). ‘Digital Poetry: From Cybertext to Programmed Forms’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/pbootz.html
Cayley, John (2006). ‘Time Code Language: New Media Poetics and Programmed Signification’, in Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, eds., New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 307-334.
Cayley, John with Dimitri Lemmerman (2006). ‘Lens: The Practice and Poetics of Writing in Immersive VR (A Case Study with Maquette)’, inLeonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/jcayley.html
Drucker, Johanna (2009). SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Emerson, Lori (2006). ‘Numbered Space and Topographic Writing’, in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/lemerson.html
Engberg, Maria (2006). ‘Morphing Into New Modes of Writing: John Cayley's riverIsland’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/mengberg.html
Eskelinen, Markku (2004). ‘Six Problems in Search of a Solution: The Challenge of Cybertext Theory and Ludology to Literary Theory’, in dichtung-digital 2004.3. www.dichtung-digital.org/2004/3-Eskelinen.htm
Funkhouser, Chris (2007). Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Glazier, Loss Pequeño (2002). Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Glazier, Loss Pequeño (2006). ‘Code as Language’, in inLeonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/lglazier.html
Hartman, Charles O. (1996). Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry. Hanover, N.H.: University of Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press.
Hayles, N. Katherine (2006). ‘The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event’, in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, ed. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 143-164.
Hayles, N. Katherine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
Hillner, Matthias (2006). ‘“Virtual Typography”: Time Perception in Relation to Digital Communication’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/mhillner.html
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. (2008). Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Liu, Alan (2004). The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Manovich, Lev (2001). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Memmott, Talan (2006). ‘Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading’, in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, ed. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 293-306.
Mez (2006). ‘_Net.Drenching -- Creating The Co[de][i]n.Text_,’ in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/mez.html
McGann, Jerome (2007). The Point is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Morris, Adalaide and Thomas Swiss, ed., (2006). New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Perloff, Marjorie (2006). ‘Screening the Page/ Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text’, in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, ed. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 143-164.
Peterson, Tim (2006). ‘New Media Poetry and Poetics. From Concrete to Codework: Praxis in Networked and Programmable Media’, in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/tpeterson.html
Portela, Manuel (2003). ‘Untranslations and Transcreations’, in Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, Vol. 15: 305-320.
Portela, Manuel (2006). ‘Concrete and Digital Poetics’, in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol 14, nos. 5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/mportela.html
Portela, Manuel (2007). ‘Significantes em Movimento em Movimento’, in Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, Nº 17, Dezembro de 2007 (Porto: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa): 63-92.
Portela, Manuel (2009). ‘Flash Script Poex: A Recodificação Digital do Poema Experimental’, in Cibertextualidades, Volume 3: 43-57. Disponível também em Po-Ex: Poesia Experimental Portuguesa - Cadernos e Catálogos, Centro de Estudos sobre Texto Informático e Ciberliteratura (CETIC), Universidade Fernando Pessoa, http://po-ex.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=148&Itemid=31&lang (15 Julho 2008)
Portela, Manuel (2005-2009). DigLitWeb: Digital Literature Web, sítio web no endereço http://www.uc.pt/diglit/
Pressman, Jessica (2007). ‘Reading the Code between the Words: The Role of Translation in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’s Nippon’, in dichtung digital http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2007/pressman.htm
Schreibman, Susan and Ray Siemens, eds. (2008). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell. Also in http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/ (01 Dec 2008)
Strickland, Stephanie (2006). ‘Writing the Virtual: Eleven Dimensions of E-Poetry’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Special Issue: New Media and Poetics, ed. Tim Peterson, Vol. 14.5-6 (Sept 2006) http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/sstrickland.html
Watten, Barrett (2006). ‘Poetics in the Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital…’, in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, ed. Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 335-370.
