Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry as Ontological Probe

Digital poetry is a multimedia hybrid-art-form, a subset of visual language fusing with digital technology, increasingly mediated by networks. Contemporary poems are animated interfaces; and they often utilize dynamic interactive typography superimposed over video, generative or 3D environments. A brief list of the disciplines involved: visual art, sound composition, literature, media studies, computer programming. Multimedia-hybrid digital poetry means that the term ‘text’ is insufficient. Future theorists will require terminology specific to the domain, I suggest: -TAV (text-audio-visual) - TAVT (a tav in a 3D territory) - TAVIT (an interactive tavt)