Visual and Digital Poetry, Week One
Visual Poetry is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. --- Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers. ------ A poem is a work of art using words (or related verbal materials).
VISUAL POETRY - WEEK ONE
When reading poetry is not directed to the goal of deciphering a fixed, graspable meaning but rather encourages performing and responding to overlapping meanings, then difficulty ceases to be an obstacle and is transformed into an opening.
-- Charles Bernstein, "Creative Wreading & Aesthetic Judgment"
Language Explorations
What is the relationship between language and image?
How does language convey message? How does image convey message?
Word Mosaic using the first few lines of Allen Ginsberg's, Howl
by Tim Holman
Morpheme
A symbol that is used in a writing system, for example Chinese, to represent the idea of a thing, rather than the sounds of a word.
An ideogram is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.
Ideogram
Ezra Pound - Ideogram
Pictogram
A pictogram is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance.
Pictogram
Logograms
A logogram is a grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language). Logograms are commonly known also as "ideograms". Strictly speaking, however, ideograms represent ideas directly rather than words and morphemes.
Linear B logograms
All three
Semes
A seme is the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics.
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, like words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, what they denote.
Semiotics is the study of meaning-making. This includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.
Memes
A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."
An ”internet meme” is an idea, style or action which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person visa the internet. Examples: posting photo of people planking (laying down in public places) or uploading a video of people dancing to the Harlem Shake.
A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.
Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
Asemic writing/Visual poem
