Video poetry is

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form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin(E)-Poetry depending on the length and content of the video work and the techniques employed (e.g. digital technology) in its creation. Video poetry is a wide-ranging category where very different typologies of works converge. Some video poetry works use digital elaboration to achieve

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that is entirely generated by

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. When absent of digital effects, video poetry is akin to performance works or a

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recorded in video (digital or analogue) but goes beyond the straightforward act of recording to establish a link with

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. In this sense, video poetry is a particular form of video art comprising poetry texts elaborated at various acoustic and visual levels.

Authors

In 1978, Canadian poet Tom Konyves used the term "videopoetry" to describe "Sympathies of War", his first work in the genre, and is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the form. He began researching videopoetry in 2008, resulting in the 2011 publicatio
Videopoetry: A Manifesto
that defined the form as "a genre of poetry displayed on a screen, distinguished by its time-based, poetic juxtaposition of images with text and sound. In the measured blending of these three elements, it produces in the viewer the realization of a poetic experience." In the early 1980s Gianni Toti began mixing cinema, poetry text, and electronic images to create a new genre called “poetronica”. In general, his video poem operas are films produced with the support of cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities. Gianni Toti could be considered the intellectual father of the term and the most active researcher on the subject, developing several conceptual and artistic derivative artifacts such as "VideoPoemOpera", "VideoSyntheatronica", "VideoPoemetti", among others. In the late 1980s,

Richard Kostelanetz Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic. Birth and Education Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) from ...

produced video poems and fictions exclusive of kinetic words by using Amiga text programs
These short sequences
were collected in randomly accessed DVDs titled, ''Video Poems and Video Fictions''. Video poetry developed in the 1990s, with short experimental video works and video installations which vary in typology, length, and structure. Authors who have contributed to video poetry as a specific genre exclusive from video art include

Arnaldo Antunes Arnaldo Antunes (, born Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes Filho, September 2, 1960) is a Brazilian musician, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked ...

, Philippe Boisnard, Jennifer Bozick and Kevin McCoy,

Caterina Davinio Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998. Biogr ...

Gary Hill Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s ...

, Philadelpho Menezes, and

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

, former poet laureate of the United States. Also defined as video poetry are videos without the presence of poetry as text. Some media poems utilize words in motion, emphasized in their iconic and typographical aspects grounded in the

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tradition. These pieces are elaborated digitally using animation software and computer graphics. Among the authors who explored this genre in the 1990s are

, and

. Among sound and performance artists related to poetry performance in video (but emphasizing the specific video language) are

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Hedwig Gorski Hedwig Irene Gorski (born July 18, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed to her. It originate ...

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. Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, at age 22, made first poetry film in Bengali 'megh bolechhe' which was screened at Kolkata press club. In 2011 he directed his second poetry film 'Iti Apu' recited by Soumitra Chatterjee. Video poetry is used as part of the movement created by '
Manish Gupta
'' to spread the beauty of South Asian languages via poetry. He has been creating meaningful internet content since 2014 and has been a torchbearer for many other projects that are starting to take root
Hindi Poetry
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Urdu Poetrymaking Hindi Urdu Cool
Transgender artist Kalki Subramaniam made a series of video poetry based on her Tamil poetry book 'Kuri Aruthean' based on the personal experiences of her struggles for dignity and being a transgender person. Selected pieces were also screened at Schwules Museum Germany.

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References

* Eduardo KAC, ''New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies'', "Visible Language" Vol. 30, No. 2, Rhode Island School of Design, 1996 * AAVV, ''La coscienza luccicante. Dalla videoarte all’arte interattiva'', Gangemi, Rome 1998 * S. BORDINI, ''Videoarte e arte'', Ed Lithos, Rome 1995 * Caterina DAVINIO, ''Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali'' (''Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality''), essay with preface by Eugenio Miccini (It/En), Mantova, Sometti, 2002. * Caterina DAVINIO, “Parole virtuali. La poesia video-visiva tra arte elettronica e avanguardia”, in "Doc(K)s. Un notre web” (book & CD), serie 3, 21, 22, 23, 24, Ajaccio (F) 1999 * Caterina DAVINIO, "Scritture/Realtà virtuali" in "Doc(K)s" (web), 2000 * Teresa IRIBARREN
"Subaltern Mediators in the Digital Landscape: The Case of Video Poetry"
Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 29:2, 319–338, 2017 * Sandra LISCHI, "Elettronica, videoarte e poetronica", in Vito ZAGARRIO (a cura di), ''Storia del cinema italiano 1977–1985'', Guido Lombardi * Sandra LISCHI, ''Visioni elettroniche'', Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. Collection: Biblioteca di bianco e nero, Rome/Venice, Marsilio, 2001 *Gianni TOTI, "Il video artista, cattiva coscienza della TV", «Cinemasessanta», 190, January–February 1990. * Marco Maria Gazzano, Gianni TOTI, "Immagine & Pubblico. Video", special n. dedicated to video art, suppl. n. 2/3, April – September, Ente Autonomo Gestione Cinema, Rome 1990 *Gianni TOTI. "Il tempo del senso", in “Internet Catalogue”, XVIII VideoArt Festival, Locarno (CH) 1997

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The Film and Video Poetry Society

Midwest Video Poetry FestTin House Reels, poetry video wing of Tin House Magazine

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The Continental Review : videopoetry site active since 2005

Irish videopoetry / cinepoetry – Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

Videopoetry archive

PoetryVisualized.com: Enjoy hours of visual poetry

Cine-poetry collection

Animated poems by Billy Collins

Moving Poems

Animated, visual, interactive poems by Paulo Aquarone

CineVerses: Poetry that Moves

Hindi poetry

Urdu Poetry

Making Hindi Urdu Cool

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