Avant-gardes and the Aleph System: An Artistic Interface for Digital Arts

Authors

  • Pablo Gobira State University of Minas Gerais - UEMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-3_14

Keywords:

digital arts, Aleph system, immersive virtual reality, poetry reading, artistic installation

Abstract

This paper presents an interface for poetry that has been developed at the Laboratory of Front Poetics (http://labfront.tk). LabFront is a research group registered at CNPq (Brazil) and certified by the State University of Minas Gerais. As one of our activities at LabFront, the development of the poetic system called “Aleph” is a reminder of the homonymous tale by Jorge Luiz Borges, which presents the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet as its protagonist. Aleph would be the point where everything would be contained. Based on this idea, one of the LabFront teams started to make a code for deconstructing poems and to generate a sound expression different from linear reading. In this work I will start by presenting the relationship of this system with the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, and later I will explain how it works in its current implementation.

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References

DEBORD, Guy (1997). A Sociedade do Espetáculo/ Comentários sobre a Sociedade do Espetáculo. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto.

DEBORD, Guy (1996). Potlatch (1954-1957). Paris: Gallimard.

GOBIRA, Pablo (2012). Guy Debord, Jogo e Estratégia: Uma Teoria Crítica da Vida. PhD thesis. Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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Published

2018-08-10

How to Cite

Gobira, Pablo. 2018. “Avant-Gardes and the Aleph System: An Artistic Interface for Digital Arts”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 6 (3):165-69. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-3_14.

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018): Electronic Literature: Translations

Section

Mediarama | Mediascape

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