http://www.neopoetry.org info@neopoetry.org neopoetry brought together young australian writers with audio and video artists. these artistic teams creatively documented new forms of writing - innovative styles that are the result of changes in culture or technology. for example; sms poetry, programming code poetry, hip-hop rhymes, graffiti and stencils, automatic language translations, online chat syntax, cut 'n 'paste zines, comic books, psychology tests, etc. video and audio artists interpreted texts written by young poets, extending these new types of writing into experimental, screen-based works. 5.00_txt sms haiku blobtext rhythms!! emile zile / bubotic devices ­ video | two4k - audio two4k and bubotic devices have worked together for several years as an audiovisual performance team. a previous bubotic devices project involved busking on the street, offering individually composed poems via sms directly to the recipient's mobile phone. 5.00_txt incorporates bubotic devices' sms poetry, and has primarily been edited with vj software to retain a live energy to the final work. DNAviary time-space comix jean poole ­ text and video | daniel mckinlay - text and audio daniel mckinlay and jean poole collaborated on DNAviary to produce an animated video that incorporated the stylistic attributes of comic books. thought bubbles and other framing devices have been translated into a temporal medium to produce a compelling variety of compositions and transitions. formlestness online language translators hyperspeed language diversion bonnie hart ­ text | tim parish - video | melanie chilianis - audio placed in a science-fiction future, formlestness explores the notion of language as a social currency. the language of the future, which is composed of all prior languages, is fixed and immutable. the script for this language was written by repeatedly translating english dialogue into other languages via online language translation services. the dialogue was eventually returned to english, replete with hybrid artefacts resulting from these flawed, inhuman translations. the great maps of the world as trodden by foot politics of the personal (as text) in public space lou smith - text | tom sevil - video | dot grady - video | ai yamamoto - audio this work seeks to combine text and video to explore the relationship between people and public spaces. although designed for public use, public spaces often inhibit personal expression, both natural, physical expressions such as walking with bare feet - and private, textual expressions such as graffiti on public walls. however, the public delivery of personal missives plays an important role in restructuring our conception of the ownership and permissions of public space. layers clever language is the new black emilie zoe baker - text | kirsten bradley - video | jesse barrett ­ audio "pecking culture and making a nest of words is like creating a new language. we are living in an e-based, SMS, "say it in 25 words or less" kinda world. we want to get to the point, cut to the chase and fast forward to the punch line. text created with this in mind activates a new form of poetry, which goes beyond pidgin engrish into another realm where spelling and punctuation can be used to wink, smile, and suggest oral sex. words are clipped, shaved and gelled by a literary stylist" - emilie zoe baker. love_u homogenisation of virtual sex deviation scott villarosa - text | shaun yue - video | reflekshun - audio love_u is based on a short poem by scott villarosa. each line of the poem is truncated in the style of a newspaper headline or product name. the poem explores the already stereotyped protocols of online dating, analysing the manner in which new forms of writing become rapidly gentrified through frequent use. lovesick contemporary hip-hop poetry ghosthype - text, audio and video through hip hop, which fuses poetry with music, language has reached a new height of experimentation. syncopated rhymes and alliterative rhythms form as the beats as much as other instruments. fascinating linguistic manoeuvres meet and break grammatical rules. in this music video for ghosthype's latest clip, the video narrative illustrates the lyrical content through a hybrid of digital video drama sequences and stylised 3D environments. one ace serve discourses with the subconscious anton nguyen - text and video | cattram nguyen - text and video one ace serve draws on the oldest projective test used by psychologists to analyse personality. word-association tests, originally developed by carl jung, see a tester giving a list of stimulus words to the subject, who must then respond with any word they feel is associated with the original stimulus. unusual responses and response latencies indicate underlying issues in the subject. by transferring a list of associated words to the context of neopoetry, anton and his sister cattram highlight a significant new use of language. traditionally developed to communicate between people in a clear and coherent manner, language is now also used as an abstracted psychological tool to delve into and communicate with one's inner, subconscious self. there is no audio on this track. oracle cut 'n' paste, sci-fi political art zine tim parish ­ text | shaun yue - video | joel stern - audio the first issue of tim parish's zine 'oracle' formed the inspiration for this animation. an eco-science-fiction tale told through fragmented writings, media snips, letters, photographs and collages, 'oracle' hints at a vast world of urban decay imbued with mystical discoveries of ancient spiritual forces. a detailed treatment describing the method by which animator shaun yue interpreted the text can be found on the DVD along with a digital reproduction of the original zine. sky noise polaroids where are we when we are on the fone? jean poole - text and video | various - text and video sky noise polaroids employed an innovative script writing process, whereby the theme of the video directly affected the production method. video artists around the world were invited to contribute to the work by producing a 1min clip, shot on a rooftop, that responded to the question, 'where are we when we are on the fone?'. to aid narrative construction, filmmakers were required to include a mobile phone call of some sort, and if possible to illustrate the particular city via the background cityscape. the resultant pastiche explores issues surrounding our science fiction reality. communication technologies have not only produced new communities via global networks, they have also altered our ontological experience of the world. who knows where we are while on a phone call - our voice simultaneously crawls rooftops, satellites, and submarine networks, to finally arrive in the ear and mind of our listener. some place else programming code poetry james reid - text | joel harmsworth - video director | jesse barrett - video designer | tim koch - audio james reid's abstract, action-scripted poetry - eg "for(i = my.first; i < my.last; i = i + time.past)" - was interpreted by joel harmsworth, the video designer, as a form of extraterrestrial communication. the video and music thus became a short sci-fi flic. interplanetary telecommunication broadcasts beam images to earth of space seeds floating on a distant planet. miniature sets were used to recreate the fantastic landscapes. a theremin was incorporated into the music to suggest a '50s sci-fi film soundtrack. jame's original piece of code poetry is available on the DVD. soul a working system of visual semantics chris parkinson ­ text | tim neumann - video | hagus - audio tim neumann has attempted to create a form of video that is more analogous to the structure of poetry. trying to evoke the same experience one receives from poetry, he has referred to the physical elements of poetry: words, spaces, phrases, as well as colour, tone, emotion and rhythm. tim developed a formal working system of processes and visual semantics for interpreting chris parkinson's poem with video. he broke down each phrase of text to a 'scene', interpreted each word as an individual symbol, and then animated these into separate video scenes. the animated sequences are designed to introduce each 'visual object' while taking into account their relationship to one another, as well as the movement from one scene to another. the video is edited in the rhythm of the poem, with the spacing of phrases, the tone and colour of the language infused within the clip. SUBmerged meshscapes immersive language thea baumann - text and video | tahlee rouillon - text and audio SUBmerged meshscapes utilises computer-game technology to examine an immersive experience of language. a synthesis of 3D architecture, gaming conventions, triggered sounds and poetry results in a virtual environment infused with language. the text functions as an aesthetic texture. language covers the surface of polygonal objects and is embedded in the soundtrack. it also forms a conceptual referent - as a mode by which we achieve virtual embodiment through digital communication technologies. t.here scott baker - text, video and audio | alison ford - voice over remote control [user editor] news disinformation television remote-controls exemplify a wave of technological devices that have brought fragmentary language experiments - (like Gysin and Burroughs' "sound bites") into the realm of mass communication. verbal clippings, such as decontextualised quotes and abbreviated headlines are becoming the staple of our information diets. these modicums of text, although semiotically framed as 'news', deliberately encourage misinterpretation. Scott Baker's collage of broadcast samples positions viewers as channel-surfing emergent authors of decomposed disinformation. melbourne through the eyes of voltron 2.0 the voice of AI jesse barrett - text and video | simon hudson - audio the default computer voices native to leading operating systems can be found in most genres of contemporary music and as sound effects in films and radio. though some might claim that the use of these generic artificial voices (and the identities associated with them - 'vicky', 'bruce', 'agnes', 'trinoids', 'deranged') is overdone, their popularity remains unquestionable. this video employs one such voice as an artificial intelligence narrating a documentary about alien, fantasy creatures (composed from photographs of melbourne architecture). the clip uses this genre of artificial speech (and its non-human language flourishes) to elicit the same emotions that trigger our anthropomorphic tendencies - a skill particular to humanity that allows us to 'see things differently'.