A cool 10 grand. That's the number of visitors that
electronically streamed through this e-journal during its virgin weekend.
This was revealed by an ecstatic LEA editor-in-chief, Nisar Keshvani, who also
shares the accolades that have been pouring in from readers. He adds, 750
man-hours have gone into producing the "
New Media Poetics and Poetry" Special guest-edited by
Tim Peterson. Of the 70 submissions, nine crisp essays and four artist
statements feature in Vol 14 No 5 - 6.
The peer-reviewed electronic journal introduces downloadable
PDFs of its essays with MLA and APA style citations and launches LEAD:
Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion. LEAD will engage readers in an online
moderated discussion list and real-time live chats with New Media Poetics
scholars.
Let's now, leap into yet another bold foray, this time
revolving around the world of new media poetics. Bursting at the cyber-seams,
a spiffy collection of essays by myriad authors await.
"In the new
media environment, we deal with an expanded notion of "poem" as praxis of
surface level and sub-textual computer code levels, and an expanded awareness
of the digital poem as process. The reading and reception of this writing
occurs in a networked context, in which the reader becomes an "ergodic"
participant (to use Espen Aarseth's term) and helps shape the form of the new
media poem," defines New Media Poetics and Poetry issue guest editor Tim
Peterson.
Peterson has woven together a marvelous mix featuring Loss
Pequeño Glazier, John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman, Lori Emerson, Phillippe
Bootz, Manuel Portela, Stephanie Strickland, Mez, Maria Engberg and Matthias
Hillner. Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting
gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson, Aya
Karpinska, Daniel Canazon Howe, mIEKAL aND, CamillE BacoS, Nadine Hilbert and
Gast Bouschet. For the first time also, be mesmerized by Mathias Hillner
and Manuel Portela's shockwave creations.
