Introducing...
This web site is meant to be a window on the poetry I produced in the late 1980's with a computer, writing software in advanced basic language. Back then, computer animation was something restricted to high budgets and, in spite of the PC revolution, it wasn't until the mid-90's that you could see it in Tv, not to mention that the web didn't exist. So, it was kind of a fresh start, without much previous works by other artists and definitely no paradigms, which were yet to be set. This contributed to a work which seemed, as said, fresh, different of what there was to be seen at the time. Interestingly, the pace in which computers of that time got obsolete, taking into oblivion the usual programming languages, made that poetic novelty an ancestor without descendants. The language in which the software-poems were created vanished, substituted by more powerful ones, destined to move the innings of the ever more apt personal computers. The way at which people looked at the display of the computer also changed, with the dissemination of the graphic interface. Well, the basic language got obsolete, as much as the 8088 machine, but not the poems it allowed to create. Not the language they created. They still look fresh, since the visual universe developed in a different direction; they look as if buried in technopast, which is not a product of time time, but of technological turns. In poetry, as well, time doesn't matter as much as form, which is the essence of art, so I decided to bring out again the complete set of poems, as a way of seeding them again in the present, where they may belong.
Special thanks go here for Eduardo Kac, artist, poet and media & arts researcher, for his recognition and incentive.
Special thanks go here for Eduardo Kac, artist, poet and media & arts researcher, for his recognition and incentive.