Typewriter Art:

This art is not about poetry but I found it similar to a concrete poetry. Paul Smith was a famous typewriter artist who composed his works of art using a typewriter. He would sketch a picture using key strokes of a typewriter. His drawings were made using symbols from a typewriter. In order to give shades to his drawing he would place thumb on the ribbon of the typewriter.

Below is an example of his works. I just could not believe that they were made using a typewriter!!!

Black Mountain College Video

Here is a video which tells a short description about Black Mountain College and also shows how it was different compared to other schools.....

PAPER MAKING

Paper has been an essential part of our lives from the olden days. Has anyone ever wondered how paper is made or how it was made, especially without technology.

This video will give you a brief idea on the history of Papermaking:

Printing in the Olden Days

Nowadays printing has become accessible on a click of the mouse. But, has it been the same before? 

Watch out this video that gives a brief understanding about the printing from the olden days.

Thanks to technological advancements today that we can print from the ease of our home!!!

Tone Poem:

A poem is a made using words and tells a story or has some meaning. But, can a poem be made without words? Can people understand such poems? The answer to these questions was given in the 19th century when Tone Poem was introduced.

Tone Poem is poem made using music that tells some story without words. To get a better understanding about what a Tone Poem is please click on the link: Tone Poem

Isn't it great to see how technology is being used in the creative field?

Here is a video of Tone Poem by Charles Lloyd:

Digital Poetry:

Technology has advanced and the field of poetry has largely been affected by it. There are many poets who now compose their poetry using a more modern approach. One such modern approach of poetry  is Digital Poetry.

While researching for digital poetry I came across a very interesting site that contains works of different poets. 

Click on the following link to enter into the world of digital poetry: Digital Poetry

Here is a video of a digital poem called "ClockWorks":

                                  

Five Poets

Tyler Knott Gregson:

Tyler Knott Gregson is poet, author, photographer and Buddhist. He is also a freelance writer for various company (Knott). He uses his website for sharing and viewing his own works. He uses an old typewriter as a medium to portray his poetic thoughts on the paper. He doesn’t edit his work and typed directly to express his spontaneous poetic thoughts. On daily basis, he writes haiku poem on love and then publish it using social media platform. He uses social media platform such as Instagram, Tumbler and Twitter so he can target a large number of audience. Being a photographer, he uses beautiful and appealing images to enhance his haiku poem.

Here is the link to his website: http://tylerknott.com/

Erik pihel:

Times have changed and poems are becoming much more than sheets of printed pages. One of the forms that has been famous in the past few years is Clickable poems. Erik pihel is also an application developer and a poet who has worked with clickable poems ("Erik Pihel”). One such example of his work is: “Big Dada: A poem for our digital age”. In this piece of art he has made extensive use of computer as a main source of technology. Even the title of the poetry is written by using the modern symbols or fonts from famous websites like google, amazon, eBay etc. Here is an image on how it looks like:

                                        

With a click the poem begins and further takes the readers into a digital world of symbols and codes. Some of his other works include: “The dressing code”, “The word train” etc.

Here is the link to experience his visual poetries: http://www.clickablepoems.com/big-dada/

Theo Lutz:

Theo Lutz is one of the first poets who begin to use technology in the field of poetry. This poet is from the era of 1959 when computers was still a fresh invention in the field of technology.  It is said that he used a Zuse Z22 computer to generate his digital poems. In the era where poets where still struggling to write poems on a typewriter it was a notable achievement for Lutz to work on a computer.  Theo Lutz inserted sixteen chapter titles and subjects from Kafka’s The Castle into a database and programmed them to recombine into phrases joined by grammatical glue ("1959 : Theo Lutz, Stochastic Text").

The lines:

Not every look is near. No village is late.
A castle is free and every farmer is distant…

This lines do not look new to a person of the modern age. But, initially when Lutz begin to use computer for his works it surely created a revolution.

glia.ca/conu/digitalPoetics/prehistoric-blog/2008/07/16/1959-theo-lutz-stochastic-text/

Paulo Aquarone

Paulo Aquarone is a Brazilian multimedia poet ("Paulo Aquarone"). He is a poet who works on poems with a visual appeal. He uses various forms of media to compose his works. He is one of a noted poets in Brazil and has held several exhibitions to showcase his exemplary work.  His work can be compared to concrete poems that provide a visual experience to the reader. He briefly categorizes his poems into different sections like: object poem, visual poem and installation poem.

Below are some examples of poems from each category:

                                                               Object poem:

                                                             Installation poem:                  

                                                                                          
                                                    
                                                                 
                                                                   Visual poem:

                                                    

                                       

   

Robert Kendall:

Robert Kendall is a digital poet and even taught electronic poetry. He used DOS software to create his poetry such as The Clue: a Minimystery and It all Comes Down to ("Robert Kendall") This kinetic poems were based on slide show which contains simple graphics, text and animation. His poetic style creates a user interactive experience.  Even his poems are embedded with sound. He uses different colour and animation for certain words and phrases to match the meaning of the poem. Each of his poem has different animation effects (e.g. Fades, wipes and moving text), sound and music.

You can explore one of his works entitled ‘Faith’ below:

http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/kendall__faith/faith.htm

In ‘Faith’ he uses five successive states, each new state is superimposed onto the old one. Even the music is synchronized with the flow of each state.

Work Cited:

     "1959 : Theo Lutz, Stochastic Text." Digital Poetry Overview. N.p., 11 July 2008. Web. 16                 June 2015.
"Erik Pihel." ZoomInfo. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.
 Knott, Tyler. "Tyler Knott." Tyler Knott. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.
"Paulo Aquarone." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 26 June 2014. Web. 11 June               2015.
"Robert Kendall." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 10 Jan. 2014. Web. 11 June 
        2015.