videopoem

Lips is a videopoem about the visualization of lips in human body organs, daily objects and machines. A couple communicates through a webcam. The woman recites a poem in Spanish language while the translation of the poem in English appears in the screen with animated letters.

This avant garde videopoem was filmed for a Spanish television channel of left wing ideology named Tele K and took part of a program dedicated to poetry called Show de Rimas. This poem was also exhibited in EPoetry London 2013 in a poster. As a concrete poem, it had the shape of lips. The poem has also been published in the poetry book "Danza Submarina" by Maya Zalbidea Paniagua (Publisher: Huerga y Fierro 2015).

1/2/3 is an elliptical videopoem based on Russian minimalist poet Vsevolod Nekrasov’s “Utopia” and footage from Mozhaysky region of Moscow. Each time three random photos containing a space where a text could appear are shown at three interactive screens. Being touched each photo transforms to video where one out of ten lines of Nekrasov’s poem appears. The viewer never knows which of these evasively poetic lines were documented or added with digital tools. (ELO 2015 catalog)

This work is published as a video documentation of a simultaneously analog and digital poem— an instance of extreme inscription as described by Matthew Kirschenbaum. Written on a semiconductor alloy with “a focus GA ion beam” at font sizes much smaller than a pixel, requiring an electron microscope with magnification “ranges from 400x all the way to 10000x.” The naked eye cannot read this poem unaided, so the video takes us through an edited journey into the poem’s text reminiscent of Prezi, but much cooler in its materiality. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

A 7-minute, single-channel digital videopoem (edition of 5). This work takes language into a domain of trance where the subtle dissolution and reconfiguration of verbal particles is charged with a feeling that is at once calm and tense.

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