the dreamlife of letters

From Rhizome Artbase
2000
Description

the dreamlife of letters is an interactive poem in which words move on and off the screen, creating new meanings through the juxtapositions of shapes and letters. An homage to concrete poetry.

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2021

An interactive poem in which words move on and off the screen creating new meanings through the juxtapositions of shapes and letters.

Brian Kim Stefans
10 September 2001

Pays homage to and yet attempts to destroy or subvert the grand old tradition of concrete poetry as has been practiced in places as diverse as Brazil, Scotland, Switzerland, Canada (I am less interested in United States concrete poets), in which the practice seemed to have some wider cultural ramifications.
Upping the ante on visual texts by injecting a new type of content

Brian Kim Stefans
10 September 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
Rational Geomancy, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Scotland, Toronto, ubu.com, Dodie Bellamy, Haraldo de Campos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brian Kim Stefans, Kenny Goldsmith, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Steve McCaffery, Toronto Research Group, Ubu, Concrete Poetry, Constellation
Attribution: Brian Kim Stefans
HTML, gender, futurism, Formalist, Flash, digital, design, Conceptual, Collaborative, censorship, body, Anti-art, Animation, Abstract, language, postmodern, public space, Text, Third World, Visual
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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10 September 2001
cloning
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