An Introduction to Neopoetics

An embodied discourse on 21st century art expressed through poetic text and 3D animation.


Introductory Excerpt:

Neopoetics is a matrix for dynamic perceptual convergences between material and immaterial systems. The deep foundational ground for Neopoetics is the Poetics of Aristotle and its relation to the ancient Greek theater as a practical systemic ideology for the mythic Greek drama. As Aristotle’s Poetics posits six basic components for the construction of drama (plot, character, thought, diction, song, spectacle) the neopoetic system has six constituent aspects: expanded embodiment, experiential metaphor, matrix architecture, perceptual resonance, the rheomode*, and neopoetic mythos.


*The rheomode is a term coined by the quantum physicist David Bohm as an experiment in pursuit of a linguistic dimension of the quantum wave.  Yet in a neopoetic context, the rheomode becomes an evolutionary system.  As Roy Ascott states, ‘Language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence.  Art is a form of world building, of mind construction, of self-creation…  Art is the search for new language, new metaphors, new ways of constructing reality, and for the means of redefining ourselves.’