01 May, 2005
The New York Times > Arts > Critic's Notebook: Dial-A-Poem Enters the Internet Age
The New York Times > Arts > Critic's Notebook: Dial-A-Poem Enters the Internet Age - what used to be the realm of the telephone for about 2 years has now been reincarnated in the form of a webpage where you can click on a selection. Ubuweb's Dial-A-Poem Poets website is a repository of history with a change of flavor and a shift of control. Where in 1969-1970, the caller put his ear in the hands of lady luck and listened to whatever it was that came through the receiver, the user these days, can click, select, close, reopen, click again and again and again. They are not even tied to a phone receiver, they can walk away, let friends listen in, make it a party or a private affair. The medium has changed, the affordances have shifted, the words, however are still there. Does their quality and their meaning change when conditions of their recital have changed so dramatically?
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hey, been following your posts over at danah's and get a kick out this dial a poem site.
ReplyDeletebeen toying around with cellphone poetics for howlfest:
http://stefanospantagis.net/journal/archives/2005/05/organizing_the_1.html#more
and trying to make sense of this reality mining stuff over here:
http://reality.media.mit.edu/
doug ruskoff has some interesting ideas about hackable cellphones and userbility: as a poet, this trend, and the historical context of poetic sharing as file sharing is something we what to bring out in our sousveillance magazine. would appreciate any comments that can help frame these ideas as we approach howlfest and I make them maybecam shirts.
stef
http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm
ReplyDeletehere is a picture of anne waldman doing her gps poem over at tribes: been trying to get her to wear a maybecam shirt: her gps poem will be in the sousveillance edition of tribes
stef