In this issue we introduce three works of visual poetry from Tuula Sipilä, David Seth Horton and Serse Luigetti. All of the works have a unique relation to text as a visual element. The seven visual poems by Serse Luigetti celebrate the aesthetics of pop-art and collage. In the works the shapes and letter-kind forms, […]
1-2024
Visual poetry
3-2023
Questions of rhythm, language and medium
The third and final issue of Nokturno 2023 is here! It features a lot of video poetry and a work combining visual poetry and sound art. Latitudes, a work of video poetry by Sarah Sands Phillips, creates an atmosphere of remembering through the repetitive rhythm of waves. The poetic text on the water’s horizon resembles […]
2-2023
Machinic Farewell
The summer Nokturno begins with a selection of machinic aphorisms. Lento #1 (“Flight #1”) by poet Jonne Piltonen and musician Heikki Saarenkunnas floods its expressional space with AI-assisted aphorisms. The composed and animated whole utilizes GPT-J language model and Stable Diffusion image generator as basis of its expression. Manuaali (“A Manual”), a “kinetic audiobook” by performance art group virate.me, takes full […]
3-2022
and in the darkness bind them
A four-part poetry film series Toxic Love Cycle, by Maryam Ghouth, approaches a suffocating relationship from the point of view of psychological projection. Sanna Telkki-Kova’s video poem Moribunda sum deals with death and the finiteness of life in terms of different mythological stratums. Menneisyysgenerattori (“Generator of the Past”) by Laura Tressel uses old weather forecasts, […]
2-2022
Ruminating Senses
“Why should the digital world in the first place imitate poetry printed on paper? Why would I imitate a three-dimensional world, for a browser-based expression is not a three-dimensional phenomenon?” These are words from Nokturno’s interview of J.P. Sipilä, one of the most prominent and international video poetry authors in Finland. Sipilä’s thoughts have a strong […]