Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Miles, Stephen

Keywords

Poetry, Literature, Cyberpoetry, Digital Poetry, New Media, Media Studies, Performance, Intermedia, Experimental Poetry

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

This thesis is a supplement to my senior project. For my senior project I composed a performance, Another Verse: An Experiment in Interactive/Digital Poetics, and a piece of software, Outerverse.net, which is used in the performance. Outerverse.net is a multiplayer game/performance geared towards the spontaneous generation of poetic texts. It can be accessed online at any time. Another Verse is a physically-situated performance, during which attendees write poems together using Outerverse.net. The first performance of Another Verse took place on March 19th, 2012 from 4 to 6 PM. A second performance took place on April 10th from 3 to 5 PM. Another Verse and Outerverse.net explore the process of writing poems simultaneously with other people, mediated by specialized software. This writing process consists of a unique mix of improvisation, collaboration, and computer interaction. It produces poems that reflect this writing process, including some poems that are meaningful as poems in their own right. Ultimately, the project is interested in the process and play of writing poems together.

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