p0es1s
International Digital Poetry
Kunsttempel Kassel (Germany)
Oct. 6 - Nov. 5, 2000
Holopoetry by Eduardo Kac (Chicago), digital video poems by Ernesto de Melo
e Castro (Sao Paulo) and Patrick-Henri Burgaud (Arnhem, NL), "Bodybuilding"
- an interactive installation by Frank Fietzek (Hamburg), "Connex I/O -
installation by Sascha Pogacar & Matze Schmidt (Kassel), Ascii-Art by
Walter van der Cruijsen & Thomax Kaulmann (Ascii-Art-Ensemble, Berlin), and
online projects (www. p0es1s.com, English version forthcoming) by: Mark
Amerika (Boulder, Col.), Giselle Beiguelman (Sao Paulo), Susanne
Berkenheger (Muenchen), Simon Biggs (London), Bastian Boettcher (Weimar),
Augsto de Campos (Sao Paulo), Florian Cramer (Berlin), Exonemo (Kensuke
Sembo und Yae Akaiva, Tokyo), Takaumi Furuhashi (Saitama, JP), Guido Grigat
(Hamburg), Judd Morissey u. Lori Talley (Boulder, Col.), Jim Rosenberg
(Denver, Col.), Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Tokyo, Kyoto), Andre
Vallias (Rio de Janeiro).
Place
Kunsttempel Kassel, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 177, D-34119 Kassel, Germany
Open: Thu - Sat, 6:00 - 22:00 pm; Son, 3:00 - 7:00 pm
Info: x49-561-24304; [log in to unmask]; internet: www.p0es1s.com
Opening
Fri, Oct. 6, 2000, 8:00 pm, with a discussion between Friedrich W. Block
(Kassel), Christiane Heibach (Erfurt) and Roberto Simanowski (Berlin), and
a performance by Pogacar & Schmidt.
Catalogue
A catalogue (50 pages, German/English), edited by Friedrich W. Block, is
forthcoming from Winfried Jenior Verlag, Kassel ([log in to unmask]), ISBN
3-934377-92-0, DM 12,-.
Organization
"p0es1s" is curated by Friedrich W. Block in collaboration with Andre
Vallias, and is organized in Kassel by "Stiftung Brueckner-Kuehner" and
"Kunst- & Literaturverein Kassel".
Symposion: "1. Forum <Aesthetics of Digital Literature>"
Linked to the exhibition, the Universities of Kassel and Erfurt are
organizing the "1. Forum <Aesthetics of Digital Literature>" in Kassel. 20
experts from art and science will discuss the possibilities and conditions
of literature in and with the hypermedia (curated by Friedrich W. Block,
Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz). Info: www.netzaesthetik.de
Work in Progress
"p0es1s" is a dynamic and virtual site of digital poetry. It consists of
exhibitions, discursive offers and recently of a website (www.p0es1s.com).
The website was launched in Munich during the "Schrift und Bild in
Bewegung" festival, spring 2000. In 1992 we (mainly responsible was André
Vallias) already showed one of the first exhibitions of digital poetry. The
presentation took place in Annaberg-Buchholz, the residence of
Carlfriedrich Claus, and it was attended by artists like Augusto de Campos,
Eduardo Kac, Richard Kostelanetz, Jim Rosenberg and others - some of them
who are again taking part.
"p0es1s" presents advanced possibilities to expand poetry to the field of
multimedia and the internet: hybrid texts between word, image, and sound,
which can only be electronically produced, stored, distributed, and
received. Symbolic worlds dissolve to electrons, converted into an
impenetrable texture of numbers, connected with currents between input and
output. Appearing as letters, numbers, lines, areas, forms, sounds, the
usual perceivable surfaces always appear as something else: They are
potentially different, temporary, liquid, and flowing. Here, digital poetry
means creative, experimental, playful, or critical verbal and non-verbal
art produced by means of programming, multimedia, animation, interactivity,
and net communication.
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