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Eduardo Kac has been experimenting in visual poetries
since the early 1980s. He is probably most famous for what he entitles holopoetry, a kind
of poetry that comes out at and towards the reader like a hologram would. The visible area
changes by the "bending" of the screen, but a hologram is easily graspable and
never moves past the viewer. Kac's claim on this name also has to do with a freeing of the
text from perspective, but in fact, this type of viewing emphasizes perspective, and a
reassurance of the reader's place as a mass, within a body. I believe a more appropriate
name for this type of poetry is remote (control) poetry. The reader has to use a control
bar in order to move the poem in certain ways so that she can read it. One example of such
poetry is "Secret." Kac's most recent work is "Uirapuru," a recreated Amazon forest in which a legendary bird, "Uirapuru" lives. According to the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo, where the work exists, "Visitors communicate with the Uirapuru through a Web interface and via sensors placed inside the artificial forest. Through interaction with the Uirapuru, which is at the same time both a fantasy and a real avian creature, visitors can explore both the virtual and the real aspects of telepresence." (http://www.ntticc.or.jp/special/biennale99/exhibition/eduardo_e.html [Accessed 28 October 1999].) |
