Poetic Constellations and Intermedia Collaborations: The Case of Vniverse

Abstract

Vniverse is an intermedia project that was first conceived in 2002 as a print book with two electronic components online. However, in 2014, Stephanie Strickland revised Vniverse and published a new version of the book and an electronic application for iPad exclusively. In its entirety, Vniverse invites the readers to read and form constellations by exploring the electronic component’s night sky, and togo back to the book where they can read the poems differently. In this work, database and narrative structures are combined, the one revealing the limits of the other as well as the potent hybrids they are capable of creating.

Keywords

• intermedia poetry
• database aesthetics
• poetic system
• machine reader
• feed-back loop
• experimental book format