Kinetic and Interactive Poetry- Julia Danielson

 I really liked this weeks chapter reading and how there are many categories under the umbrella of kinetic and interactive poetry. The chapter consists of a wide timeline, taking us from Facist Italy to modern day redemptions. When explaining kinetic poetry, space and time are important factors, as "spatial and temporal dimensions bridge notions that go radically beyond the print paradigm" (Alvaro Seica). Retteberg makes a key distinction between kinetic and interactive poetry as IP involves another dimension of performance: "the performance that is required of the user in order to operate the text machine" (120). I liked Hayles' usage of the term "feedback loop" to better explain interactive poetry: "the machine produces the text as an event; the reader interacts with that event in ways that significantly modify and even determine its progress; these readerly interventions feed back into the machine to change its behavior, which further inflects the course of the performance" (120). 

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Because of these distinctions, I was intrigued to look at a piece of work that was both interactive and kinetic. I found slippingglipmse (2007) by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo to be exactly that! On the home page, you are asked to choose between a series of 10 photos that all have some nature-background vibe to them. From there, depending on which photo is clicked, leads to a video rendition of that picture with included lines of poetry moving across the video. I really loved this piece of work. I loved the adoption of nature into animation and how the poetry floats across the page and appears to be some type of nature, wind, water, ect, to be dancing across the page. 

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  1. Ava GarciaMarch 6, 2023 at 5:05 PM

    Hi Julia! Im excited that you picked slippingglimpse for this week this was one I found really enjoyable as well! I also really loved the way the authors incorporated nature animations with poetry, the way they created this piece of work was definitely beautiful to watch and to read. Can't wait to hear more about it in class!

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