Dimocopo - digital moving concrete poetry

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Description

This suite of 28 early animated poems from 1995-1997 were created as animated GIFs but are really powered by a vibrant enthusiasm over the ability of computers to write kinetic language. In this suite, we see words morph into other words and into objects, words whose movements evoke their meanings, words used to build landscapes full of objects (a decade before WordWorld), and phrases reconfiguring and reshaping themselves into new ones - as is the case with 'she left' (above). This poem is very economical with its language resources, yet so effective in describing the psychological process of a breakup in a relationship.
Excerpt of Leonardo Flores' description, I love E-Poetry

Creator

Zervos, Komninos

Date

1995-1997

Rights

Copyright Komninos Zervos. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder.

Genre

Web based digital poetry

Platform

gif animation

Citation

Zervos, Komninos, “Dimocopo - digital moving concrete poetry,” ADELTA, accessed October 9, 2024, https://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/250.