1) CHRIS: The computer is often seen as giving the artist more freedom in both the visual and conceptual sense. Likewise, this is supposed to give the viewer more room for freedom of exploration. In what way do you feel a sense of exploration may be gained/lost if looking at your piece on the computer [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Brian Kim Stefans’
21 November 2008
ON KLUGE: A Meditation in Four Parts from Four Students
1) The computer is often seen as giving the artist more freedom in both the visual and conceptual sense. Likewise, this is supposed to give the viewer more room for freedom of exploration. In what way do you feel a sense of exploration may be gained/lost if looking at your piece on the computer as [...]
20 November 2008
Brian Kim Stefans on KLUGE, Programming, Pound, and Paragraphs
I started programming computers in the very early 80s, on pathetic little things like the ZX-81 and the Vic-20, when I was about ten or so years ago. Mostly video games. It wasn’t until high school that I took up poetry, primarily under the posthumous tutelage of Ezra Pound, whose injunction to never waste a [...]
3 October 2008
A B C, Fantasy
By Innessa Roosen
In the Flash-animated work “The Dreamlife of Letters”, Brian Kim Stefans, author in the Electronic Literature Collection, recreates the structure of conventional poetry by bringing language to life on the screen. This particular work is an innovative response to a more traditional print text by poet and feminist literary theorist Rachel Blau [...]
2 October 2008
REVIEW: Star Wars, One Letter at a Time
By Jamie Lee Cue
Brian Kim Stefans is an American Poet who is well known for focusing his efforts on the art of digital poetry, having two works featured in the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection. His pieces take advantage of the use of flash, focusing not on the words themselves, like typical poetry, [...]
