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Digital poetry from 1987 by Geof Huth

Posted by Jim Andrews
Link:
http://vispo.com/huth
Date:
December 31, 2008

ENDEMIC BATTLE COLLAGE AND
OTHER 1987 APPLE BASIC POEMS
by Geof Huth
http://vispo.com/huth

Endemic Battle Collage and other 1987 Apple Basic Poems is a suite of
programmed, animated poems by Geof Huth. This work is discussed in Chris
Funkhouser's landmark book Prehistoric Digital Poetry. Because this early
Huth work is digital and from 1987, it's been unavailable for many years.
You can view the work as video at http://vispo.com/huth or download an
emulator and view the poems through the emulator. Also included on vispo.com
are writings by Geof Huth about these works and about digital poetry more
generally. And an introduction by me to the project.

This is some of the earliest programmed+kinetic visual poetry created. This
Huth work and bpNichol's related First Screening at http://vispo.com/bp
exude the sense of excitement Nichol and Huth felt at this incunabular point
in the intersection of visual and digital poetry with the cinematic.

Happy new year to all Rhizomers!

ja

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