Published In
The Work of New Composing
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
Subjects
Digital media -- Criticism and interpretation, Born magazine, Multimedia (Art), Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- 21st century, Authorship
Abstract
Born is an experimental online magazine that brings together writers and "new media" designers and artists, who have collaborated to create multimedia interpretations of poetry (and more rarely, short prose). As editors of one of the earliest, enduring literary publications on the Web, we often receive invitations to share our “vision” of Web poetics, literary multimedia, et cetera. This presents a problem—Born evolved without consciously intending to even focus on poetry (only our current incarnation), but rather with an intent to be a creative, collaborative community. As such our work and vision are shaped as much by the interests of our contributors as our volunteer editors and curators.
Furthermore, most of our published works were crafted in print and then interpreted into multimedia, thus we are not creating multimedia poetry in the tradition of those such as Loss Pequeno Glazier, who have considered the impact of multimedia technology on the composition and craft of poetry itself, and the resulting poetics. However, we do continually find our work raises questions directly relevant to the rising field of “multimedia poetics” (for lack of a better term). How does the medium affect the experience of poetry? In the case of Born, does the transference or interpretation into this medium change the poem—structurally, its language, or otherwise? What does the process of collaboration do to a poem’s reading? Actually, while we do on occasion get some of those questions, the most persistent can be distilled to one: “Isn’t this just all a bunch of prettified bells and whistles tacked on to the poem?”
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Winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
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Citation Details
Trimble, A. and Grotz, J. “Experimenting with the Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, and the French Avant-Garde,” The Work of New Composing. Debra Journet, Cheryl Ball, Ryan Trauman, eds. Computers and Composition Digital Press (Utah State UP), 2012.
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This is the PDF version of the published chapter.
Winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award