Visual & Kinetic Typology

Static Works

• words are arranged into literal shapes
• words show patterns that represent dispersal or displacement of language
• words are combined with images (as in a collage)

Kinetic Works (operative principle: optical mutation of words and letters; poems, by design, move and change before the viewer’s eyes)

• Projected:
  • Words are plotted into motion (or letters themselves change shape or morph in appearance)
  • presented as part of kinetic collages in which elements of language are combined with visual objects or symbols in single or multiple visual scenes/scenarios

   

• Interactive:
  • viewers are invited to set some of the poem’s parameters (used in the activation or appearance of words)
  • viewers interact with a virtual object that is fixed in position on the screen