July 2016

Carolina Fernández CastrilloPages 125-136DOI: 10.3726/b10729_125 ABSTRACT Early 20th century Futurist attempts in visual poetry can be related to technology-based poetic creation and current digital experiences. This essay seeks to enhance the understanding of Media Poetry by identifying the existing connections between the “words in freedom” and Eduardo Kac’s Holopoetry. This example of interactive and immaterial […]

Janez StrehovecPages 137-152DOI: 10.3726/b10729_137 ABSTRACT Contemporary art based on new media is situated at the intersection of art-as-we-know-it, smart technologies, digital and algorithmic culture, networked economy, (post)politics, as well as bio and techno sciences. Contemporary art enters into intense relations with these fields, including interactions, adoption of methodological devices and approaches, changes of the areas

Stefano CalzatiPages 153-172DOI: 10.3726/b10729_153 ABSTRACT This article adopts a transmedial perspective in order to investigate narrative similarities and differences between print and online travel writing. Texts, which are contemporary and Western-authored, are written either in English, French and Italian and they all focus on China as the travel destination. Drawing upon Gérard Genette and Mieke

Horea AvramPages 173-182DOI: 10.3726/b10729_173 ABSTRACT Can we speak about a specific real-virtual spatiality in the contexts offered by the post-desktop technological philosophy and practice? Does Augmented Reality have the potential to produce a different type of space (essentially hybrid) in which private and public converge up to the point of their cross identification? More exactly,