Digital and experimental poetry
This Spring the sudden outbreak of Corona virus has had unexpected effects on societies all over the world. The situation in Finland is at this moment calm. Covid-19 has however had big impacts on, besides healthcare and politics also on culture and art with the strict restrictions imposed on live events. Many institutions were forced […]
This Spring the Corona virus has significantly changed the ways we work and spend our free time. Digital channels and easy access have become more important than ever, both for artists and audience in the fields of culture and art. Our response was to announce an open call for releases between issues for the time […]
We once again received plenty of intriguing applications from poets and artists both from Finland and abroad. This year we selected a project that represents a genre of digital poetry that hasn’t yet been visible in our residence, computer-generated textual poetry. Kyle Booten’s work utilizes textual environment of social media and addresses spiritual questions from […]
This issue, released amidst the corona pandemia and it’s unexpected effects is dedicated to the memory of Marko Niemi, pioneer in Finnish digital poetry who passed away last September at the age of 45. He was the editor in chief at Nokturno from 2006 to 2014. During his active years in digital poetry he collaborated […]
For this issue of Nokturno we invited poet and scholar Matti Kangaskoski to curate us a selection of contemporary digital poetry. Dear Reader of Nokturno, The works presented in this issue are Ian Hatcher’s Rumble Pak, Pip Thornton’s {poem}.py, Stephanie Strickland’s Ringing the Changes and Liberty Ring!, and Blast Theory’s Karen. As the guest-curator of […]
