World Wide Webs in Japanese Poetry and Digital Media
Speaker: ANDREW CAMPANA, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Cornell University
Moderator: TOMIKO YODA, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University
This talk will examine a web of interlocking phenomena over the last three decades in Japan at the intersection of poetry and digital media: experiments with poetic homepages on the early Japanese internet; digital animations of Ainu poetry; video game poetry; and Japanese Sign Language poems online. We will consider not just the impact of digital technologies on the composition and circulation of poetry, but how poets used their work as alternative ways of thinking about digitality, communication, Deafness and Indigeneity at crucial moments of media transition.
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum
