Poetics for a Black Revolt

Recombinant Poetics:

This research derives from a survey of primary and secondary literature and my practice as a professional artist using electronic information delivery systems. The research has informed the creation of an interactive art work, authored so that emergent meaning can be examined and explored within a specific generative virtual environment by a variety of participants. It addresses a series of que...

A Poetics of Simulation for Audiovisual Performance

Audiovisual performance is a fertile area for creative expression, an intersection of experimental cinema and computer music that has seen a groundswell of interest in recent years. To create works in this emerging medium, a complex network of relationships between sounds, images and sensor input must be organized. This complexity poses major technical and aesthetic challenges which a systemati...

Introduction: A Poetics of Interpretation

Eros as a Constant in Nikolic's Poetics

The depth of the problems that Nikolic procedures in his movies arise from the specific subject matter that was unlike some other arts, above all literature, in this field of aesthetic expression in the unique cultural and conceptual framework of former Yugoslavia, less prevalent. Although it is difficult to talk about their polyphonic or polymorphic characteristics, the clear and dramatic func...

Towards a theory of choice poetics

Digital games that include narrative often let their players influence it, and this is seen as a highly desirable quality in some genres. This influence often takes the form of explicit choices within a fixed layout of branching plot lines. Traditional narrative theory does not suffice when analyzing how these game-stories function, because it has nothing to say about how players interacting wi...