Creative Performance
Loss Pequeño Glazier
University at Buffalo
Biography
Poet Loss Pequeño Glazier is Professor of Media Study (SUNY Buffalo, New York), Director, Electronic Poetry Center, and Artistic Director of the first and longest-running such series, the E-Poetry Festivals. The most recent E-Poetry Festival 2011 was held in Buffalo in May, 2011, with previous festivals in London, Paris, and Barcelona. The Electronic Poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu), the original Web poetry center, continues over 20 years of activity as a peerless, pioneering, and extensive resource for innovative and digital poetry on the Web. Glazier’s work in digital writing focuses on natural language permutation, computer code as writing, literary translation, etymological migration, and language poiesis. Glazier (epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/) is author of the first title on the subject, Digital Poetics (Alabama, 2002), Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Salt, 2003), Small Press (Greenwood, 1992), the acclaimed digital works, white faced bromeliads on 20 hectares (1999, 2012), Io Sono at Swoons (2002), and Territorio Libre (2003-2010), and poems, essays, film, visual art, sound, digital works, as well as projects for dance, music, installation, and performance, including at the: Collectif Aixois d’Art Contemporain, France; Neuberger Museum SUNY Purchase, New York; University of Salamanca, Spain; University of Bergen, Norway; VI Bienal Internacional de Poesia Experimental, Mexico City; Royal Festival Hall London; Instituto del Libro, La Habana; NOCCA Gallery, New Orleans; Guggenheim Museum, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; California Institute of the Arts; University of London; Le Divan du Monde, Paris; Bowery Poetry Club, New York; Brown University, Providence; Openport Festival, Links Hall, Chicago; Palazzo delle Arti, Naples; Casa de Cultura de Nuevo León and Arte SC Escuela de Arte, Monterrey, Mexico; and Université Paris Diderot. His author page is located at the EPC (epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/).
Abstract
This event investigates how one reads a literary text in the digital environment. The presentation is presented in several parts, as follows. The poem is meant to extend the idea of poetic structure from a static/print environment to the structures of digital language. It means to move it forward, not dizzied by technical effects, but along a trajectory that thoughtfully moves structures into New Media environments.
1. A general introduction. Each part of the four-part digital poem, “Four Guillemets”, is composed in sections that vary in their content on a periodic basis, indeed during the actual reading of the text. The introduction asks participants to listen to the text and to fill out response pages. Ideas about what the text means, what lines are memorable, what the “larger” meanings of the text might be.
2. Four Guillemets (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/e-poetry/guillemets/) is performed. (The performance consists of expressive language, pacing, rhythm and the adaptability of the reader to the shifts in the text.) This reading brings literary language, executed through literary structures, into the digital realm.
2a. If the Digital Poetry & Dance option is desired. A performance with of digital poetry and dance will be presented. (This would require more of a stage-like setting, thus it is presented as an option to HASTAC. There are several possible digital poetry works performed for dance that can be presented. One of these will be presented. These move the concept of electronic language into interpretative modes on contemporary/modern dance, re-imagining the body presented against digital modes.
3. A brief talk will then be given couching the performative text in traditions of literary writing. This talk presents static poetic text that is dynamic in its poetic functioning. Works looked at include Robert Frost, H.D., Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley, writers mostly identified with the avant-garde, and discusses how poetic strings as poetic variants can be seen as pioneering works for poems that use strings in code.
Relation to conference theme: This proposal engages numerous aspect of the conference, with an emphasis on language change in digital media, poetics re-configured for new modalities of creative expression in digital language.
The main objective is to put forward in performance and through discussion and theory, living new modes of digital poetry in the world of New Media language.