Poetic Machines – the essentiality of the human and the machine to digital

creative expressionPaper by Jeneen Naji

For iGBL June 7th 2012 W.I.T.

Part Time PhD Research Student – School of Communications, D.C.U.Full Time Digital Media Faculty at the Centre for Media Studies, NUI

Maynoothjeneen.naji@nuim.ie

Poetic Machines

Introduction - Rationale The Machine Posthuman Cyborgs The difference between analogue &

digital – simulations vs representations Conclusion References

Introduction - Rationale

Knowledge towards the creation of effective & specifically targeted game based learning experiences.

An examination of ePoetry as digital creative content can inform:

interactive entertainment digital game based learning

iF Poemshttp://youtu.be/I8cP0L5PQmg

Vannevar Bush

The machine

Posthuman Cyborgs

So what really is different between analogue & digital?

Analogue – RepresentationsAristotle – mimesis

Poetry as a likeness or imitation of the world around us

Digital – SimulationsGiddings (2007) & Hayles (2004)

The computer as a simulation machine, simulating the world around us

Fallow – Monica Ong and Rebecca Givens

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/fallow

(Givens & Ong, Fallow, Online)

“My work Concatenation is a text-as-apparatus. It was necessarily created within, and necessarily experienced via the computer” (Weight 2006).

Not only is the apparatus essential to digital creative expression but so too are we.

We are part of the process, the human and apparatus communication within the exchange, the cybernetic loop (Aarseth 1997).

Conclusion

Q.’s ?

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