Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur
May 19.-21., 2022
Conception and organization: Dr. Wiebke Vorrath and Magdalena Korecka, M.A. (SP3)
The international interdisciplinary conference will focus on the visual and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary poetry, in particular on phenomena relating to the relationship between images, texts, and language, as well as on changes in production and reception practices. Current poetic formats often reflect on the (hidden) functions of digital technologies and highlight the ubiquitous use of digital media. We therefore claim that poetry in the digital age harbors considerable potential for both “visual literacy” and “digital literacy.” It is thus important to ask how contemporary poetry can contribute to visual culture and media studies, and therefore to “postdigital” media criticism.
Papers from the fields of literary, media, and film studies, as well as areas like visual culture and communication studies, will deal with phenomena in the following provisional sections: The Aesthetics of Script and Images in Poetry and Poetry Films; Transformation and Processuality in Digital Poetry; Visual Studies and Pop Culture in Poetry Research; The Lyric in the Visual Arts and the Figurative in Book Poetry; Poetic Reading and Writing Practices in Digital Media; Modes of Interaction and Perception in Contemporary Visual Poetry; and Poetry, Protest, Politics, and Participatory Culture.
The conference will be held in English and German.
Conference program
Thursday, May 19th
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West, Raum 221
Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg
2.30 pm
Welcome and Introduction by Claudia Benthien, Magdalena Korecka and Wiebke Vorrath
Panel I: Perceiving Poetic Transformations
3.00 pm
Karin Nykvist: „Here, There, or Everywhere. Situating Contemporary Multimodal Poetry“
3.45 pm
Maksim Lepekhin: „Russian-Speaking Poetry in Digital Spaces: The Weird and the Queer“
5.00 pm
Hannes Bajohr: „Digital Ekphrasis: The Dissolution of the Text/Image Difference in Multimodal AI“
5.45 pm
Jörgen Schäfer: „Die Akte des Lesens. Lyrik lesen (und schreiben) in digitalen Medien“
[„The Acts of Reading. Reading (and Writing) Poetry in Digital Media“]
Friday, May 20th
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky, Vortragsraum
Von-Melle-Park 3, 20146 Hamburg
Panel II: Making Visible – Poetry, Politics, and Participatory Culture
9.00 am
Sylvia Sasse: „Im Krieg. Wie ukrainische Künstler:innen und Poet:innen den Krieg analysieren“
[„At War. How Ukrainian Artists and Poets Analyze the War“]
9.45 am
Astrid Böger: „Digital Poetry: Participation, Performance, Protest“
11.00 am
Magdalena Korecka: „Political Visibilities and Intentional Aesthetics in Social Media Poetry“
Panel III: ‚Poetic Images‘ – (Audio)Visuality in Contemporary Book Poetry
11.45 am
Hiroshi Yamamoto: „‚Schneiden, Spleißen und punktgenaue Mutation!‘ Zur Text-Bild-Interferenz im digitalen Zeitalter in Gerhard Falkners und Yves Netzhammers Ignatien“
[„‚Cutting, Splicing, and Precise Mutation!‘ Text-Image-Interferences in the Digital Age in Gerhard Falkner‘s and Yves Netzhammer’s Ignatien“]
2.00 pm
Svenja Blum: „Zur Dialogizität von Lyrik und bildender Kunst am Beispiel des Künstlerbuches Un animal oculto (2004) des spanischen Dichters Antonio Gamoneda“
[„On the Dialogism between Poetry and Visual Arts: the Example of the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda’s Artist Book Un animal oculto (2004)“]
2.45 pm
Tijana Koprivica: „Film Techniques and Poetic Procedures – Movie Night with Vladan Krečković: Paris, Texas 1984/2020“
Panel IV: Artistic Practices in Poetry Films and Digital Poetry
4.00 pm
Lucy English: „Collaborative Aesthetics in Poetry Film“
4.45 pm
María Mencía: „Navigating the Digital Poetic-Aesthetic Space“
8.00 pm Lecture Performance
Chris Kerr: „Optimising Code for Performance: Reading ./code --poetry“
Saturday, May 21st
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West, Raum 221
Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg
Panel V: Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Script and Images in Recent Poetry
9.30 am
Vladimir Feshchenko and Olgo Sokolova: „Visualizing Discourse Deixis in Contemporary Language-Oriented Poetry“
(via Zoom)
10.45 am
Esther Kilchmann: „Poetische Visualisierungen von Übersetzung in Werken von Uljana Wolf, Heike Fiedler und Jörg Piringer“
[„Poetic Visualizations of Translation in the Works of Uljana Wolf, Heike Fiedler and Jörg Piringer“]
11.30 am
Heinz Drügh: „Von Überraschungseiern, Gummibärchen und anderem Eye Candy – Überlegungen zur gegenwärtigen Lyrik und den kommodifizierten Bildern“
[„About Surprise Eggs, Gummy Bears, and other Eye Candy – Reflections on Contemporary Poetry and Commodified Images“]
12.15 pm
Conclusion and Farewell
Call for Papers of the conference “Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture”