November 12, 2004
Turbulence Spotlight: "On Lionel Kearns" by Jim Andrews
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/kearns
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"On Lionel Kearns" is a look back at a forward-looking poet. It explores
the sixties-through-eighties pioneering work of proto-digital Vancouver
poet Lionel Kearns. Kearns' work in text, visual poems, and animated
poetry videos is combined with Andrews' interactive visual programming;
the result crosses borders between the digital poem, the documentary,
and the essay, and re-programs the literary hypertext of net.art. "On
Lionel Kearns" is an introduction to the work of a poet who presents a
larger vision of what it means to write and be a poet than was widely
accepted or understood when the work was originally published. Kearns
practiced and wrote about the sort of poly-artistic, variously-mediated
poetics we see developing in the digital domain, and he wrote about
computers and poetry in parables of insight. He looks forward from the
sixties into the present and, past the present, into the future.

"On Lionel Kearns" has been reviewed by Geoff Huth:
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2004/11/on-on-lionel-kearns-jim-andrews-and.html

BIOGRAPHY

Jim Andrews is a poet-programmer-audio guy-critic. He has been
publishing vispo.com since 1995. Recent work includes: Digital Writing
Circa 2004, written for a talk in England; Paris Connection, a project
in critical media on six Parisian artists; Arteroids, a literary game
for the Web; and Nio, interactive audio/visual music.

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