Net-poetry is a development of net.art, involving poetry. This kind of experimental art was born in several different cities around 1995.
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"Internet poetry" was a collection of poetry founded and directed by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro in 1995 for Conte Editore in Lecce. The "Internet poetry" collection was composed of two editions: web and print edition. The first title published was "Three deserts from the shadow of the last mechanical smile" (1995) by Elio Coriano, Venice Poetry Prize in 1996. Poetry as iper-text was published on the web of ClioCom (www.clio.it/sr/ce/ip/home.html), and today is no more online. "Internet Poetry" was the first italian experience of net poetry. Karenina.it (1998) was the second Italian net-poetry project. Participants included historical performance artists, visual poets, theorists, sound poets, literary and art critics, such as Caterina Davinio, Julien Blaine, Clemente Padin, Philadelpho Menezes, Mirella Bentivoglio, Eugenio Miccini, Lamberto Pignotti, Tomaso Binga, Massimo Mori, Francesco Muzzioli, Marco Maria Gazzano, and new media artists. Karenina.it collaborated in participative projects in the context of the Venice Biennale.
Net-poetry at the 49th Venice Biennale, 2001
A net-poetry event (the online happening "Parallel-Action-Bunker") was featured in the Biennale di Venezia in 2001. It was produced and curated by the digital artist and poet Caterina Davinio in the context of Bunker Poetico, a collaborative installation by the artist Marco Nereo Rotelli which involved 1,000 international poets. The virtual happening “Azione-Parellala-Bunker" (Parallel Action-Bunker) was held online at the same time as real performances took place at Orsogrill delle Artiglierie, a real space of the Venice Biennale. With this event, a relationship was created between real and virtual poetry events – a new connective and collective network of poetry, based on communication, and similar to some events and happenings organized by Fluxus, e-mail art and relational art.
Other net-poetry events
Other net-poetry events, created by Davinio in collaboration with international artists and poets, were:
Poetry hypertext and interactive environments online
Other pioneer artists created a different kind of net-poetry, as interactive environment on line including animated text and digital poetry: Ana Maria Uribe, Reiner Strasser (interactive video-sound poetry), Jim Andrews (vispo.com). Other artists intend net-poetry as interactive hypertext poetry/narration that can be adapted for Internet, examples being Deena Larsen (Marble Spring, interctive poetry hypertext in CD ROM, 1993, Disappearing Rein, 1999), Robert Kendall (Frame Work, 1999, a Study in Shades, 2000), Mendi Obadike (Keeping Up Appearances, a hypertextimonial, 2001) and others. Some artists consider net-poetry simply digital poetry published online or specifically created for the Internet.