New Media Poetry:
Aesthetics, Institutions and Audiences

October 11-12, 2002

Welcome!

A number of the leading critics and writers in the field of New Media poetry will gather in Iowa City this October. We hope you can join us.

The conference will focus on poetry composed for digital environments, exploring cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural accounts of this work in the broader context of contemporary arts and culture.

Our aims:

• to look at the possibilities for poetry offered by the electronic convergence of words, images and sound
• highlight the changing contexts in which literature is produced as a result of the electronic word
• examine emergent reading possibilities and strategies
• consider some of the new forms of distribution and archiving made possible by the Web.

The conference promises to be an historic literary event since it will be the first devoted exclusively to the critical study of this emerging literary practice.

Sponsors: We are grateful to our sponsors for their generous support. These include the International Writing Program; Iowa Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; the English Department; International Programs; American Studies; POROI, and Comparative Literature.

Conference Organizers: Dee Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Thom Swiss is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa.

• Speakers Biographies
• Registration, travel and accommodations information
• Conference Schedule
• Conference Paper abstracts and texts
• New Media Poetry Gallery
   
• The University of Iowa International Writer's Program
• The UI English Department
• The University of Iowa Homepage

For more information and registration materials, contact the Center for Conferences and Institutes:

Kelly Flinn
Center for Conferences and Institutes
100 Oakdale Campus   W310 OH
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-5000
319.335.4105     FAX 319.335.4039
E-mail: Kelly-Flinn@uiowa.edu