Digital Poetry Overview

This website is an ongoing process of documenting the references discovered during a doctoral directed-research course at Concordia University into the evolution of digital poetry .

A vast majority of the early references are indebted to the elegant and thorough scholarship of C.T. Funkhouser’s (2007) Prehistoric Digital Poetry

The website is being created by David Jhave Johnston, a multimedia-poet and doctoral student at Concordia University. He has been involved in numerous collaborative and solo digital and in-situ art practises (working with among others: Teletaxi, Champ Libre, [SAT], Bioteknica, Turbulence.org, Ollivier Dyens, ActiveText, Symbiosis, Zoi…). His work has been exhibited at 2 new media Biennales: Montreal ‘03 & Toronto ‘04. His current home site is www.glia.ca . He curates www.year01.com

The research is directed by Ollivier Dyens, poet and author of Metal and Flesh (MIT, 2001) and La condition inhumaine : Essai sur l’effroi technologique (Flammarion, 2008). He is currently Dean of the Département d’Études Françaises at Concordia University.

Official Course Description:HUMA 859H New Media overview with an emphasis on digital poetry.