ALIRE / DOC(K)S – POÉSIE ANIMÉE PAR ORDINATEUR 1997
The "poetry animated by computer" presents the "poetic images" of about sixty authors/poets-poetic images that exceed the notion of experimental poetry. The review Alire was founded by five literateurs in Paris in 1989 among them Hungarian Tibor Papp. Digital poetry is the extension of the review on paper since, as the authors say, "a paper can illustrate a computer work but the contrary is not possible", which means that poetry in an electronic review will necessarily be different. In this spirit the CD-ROM examines the touching fields of poetry and of the possibilities provided by the computer through visual and sound poetry which make use of the computer both as a simple tool and as an extension of thought-as the grounding of a new aesthetics. Let me give one example of the wide range of animated works, it is called "Man And Monkey Visit the Museum". On a video flash we see a man with a hat on his head, dressed in a T-shirt signed MAN and with a plush monkey on his shoulders. And he just howls like Johnny Weismüller used to in good old Tarzan films. The name of the author is Paul Zelevansky, if we can credit names.
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