Características semióticas del soporte material del poema visual en la era de las nuevas tecnologías

Abstract

The experimental movement of visual poetry was born in Spain in the 60s. For this movement, traditional poetry is dying for its lack of movility in the space of the page and the book. To free it, and to show that poetry is above all an act, visual poets created - and still create - poems under many different forms in many different places, from the textual arrangement change in the space of the page, to the street performance in public places, including the graffiti on a wall or the humorous drawing on a computer screen. In other words, the main feature of the visual poem is its iconicity. Hence, the importance of its material support, as in any visual work of art. We also know that traditional poetry is characterized by staging its own support: language. Now, in the case of visual poetry, the support, in its most concrete materiality, is also staged and generates meaning in the poem. We intend to study this semiotic importance of the material support in the visual poem, especially with new technologies.