VISUAL AND ELECTRONIC INTERNATIONAL POETRY EXHIBITION


The Itu city is going to host an international exhibition of visual and electronic poetry from November 4th to 11th, 2005, in the Museu da Energia (Museum of Energy) and in the site of the eletronic journal www.itu.com.br.

It treats about the MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE POESIA VISUAL E ELETRONICA (VISUAL AND ELECTRONIC INTERNATIONAL POETRY EXHIBITION), under the curatorship of Jorge Luiz Antonio, Hugo Pontes and Roberto Keppler, promotion of Academia Ituana de Letras (Academy of Letters from Itu) and London School, with the help of sponsors.

Essa exposicao faz parte da Semana da Cultura de Itu, evento da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura.
This exhibition makes part of the Cultural Week of Itu, an event of the Culture Municipal Secretary of Culture.

Visual poetry will count on the physical space of the Museum of Energy: panels with visual poetries, a room with an interactive books and exhibition of some magazines and books.

The Exhibition will count on the participation of poets from Brazil and several countries.

The electronic newspaper www.itu.com.br will host the electronic poetry exhibition, which will be appreciated by the cyberreaders in the following URL: www.itu.com.br/poesiavisual.

The event is a cultural proposal and an invitation: to go to the exhibition and access several sites of electronic poetry, and, then, be in the round table, on November, 9th, 2005, from 8 p. m. on, in the Museum of Energy.

Hugo Pontes, Jorge Luiz Antonio e Roberto Keppler will present short communications on visual and electronic poetry, for, then, to give the word to all who will have interest in asking, discussing or asking questions about the subject.

For the readers will be able to appreciate visual poetry, there are some examples.

“Orfeu”, by Elson Froes:




It is a poem made of images which represent the trajectory of poetry, from the one which was sung by the song of lyre in Antiquity to the one which starts existing in the computers.

Other examples allow us to appreciate this type of making poetry: “Ligue-se” (Turn on yourself), by Hugo Pontes, explores the technology of communication (telephone) and of reproduction (xerox) to establish other poetical communication, the one with the word with the image:


“Tributo a Cesario Verde” (Tribute to Cesario Verde), by Jorge Luiz Antonio, builds the possible image of the XIXth century poetry which announces the visuality in the poetry of the following centuries:





Roberto Keppler, explorando as tecnicas das artes plasticas, cria carimbos, um produto tecnologico e um simbolo da repeticao e da burocracia, para produzir novos significados em “A consciencia do vicio”:
Roberto Keppler, exploring the visual arts techniques, creates stamps, a technological product and a symbol of the repetition and of bureaucracy, to produce new meanings in the “A consciencia do vicio” (The consciousness of viciousness).





This exhibition intends to present what is innovative in the poetical communication and, so, to indicate that the contemporary language, which is predominantly visual, is also receiving the intervention of poetry, and that now it is being propagated not only in the printed media, but also in the three-dimensional and electronic ones.

Hugo Pontes is poet, teacher in PUC Minas and one of the pioneers in xerox art in Brazil and also a great divulgator of visual poetry.

Jorge Luiz Antonio is poet and teacher and is developing researches and creations of electronic poetry.

Roberto Keppler is civil engineer, artist, visual poet and works in Municipal Secretary of Culture in Sao Paulo. He is one of the pioneers in xerox art in Brazil, of visual poetry and computational poetry.