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Harry Burke speaks about Eugen Gomringer

Post Digital Cultures, 4-5.12.2015, Lausanne Symposium presented by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), Switzerland and Les Urbaines. Harry Burke presents on the influence of Bolivian-Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer → within the post-war sociopolitical context in which he emerged as an instigator of the international concrete poetry movement + as well as upon a newer generation of poets who both continue and challenge his work in the post-digital moment of today. Gomringer’s text experiments § (from his first book of poetry konstellationen (1953) to the journal Spiral. International Journal for Concrete Art and Design which he founded with Dieter Roth and Marcel Wyss in the same year) argue for language as a visual and spatial phenomenon that is materially linked to the technology of mass media and the printed page ¶. Fluent in the rhetorics of advertising and image construction ☆ his poetics reject notions of the poem as intangible or immaterial phenomenon ☂ and instead ground the poem as fundamentally material object ☛☔. Though known widely and celebrated, this work still constitutes a counter-history within the mainstream poetry canon. Yet richer still counter-histories can be charted moving around and away from the concretism ▇ of the 50s, from happenings and Fluxus activities in the 60s; clairvoyant L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E experiments of the 70s; nascent digital poetries of the 80s; and a wide range of intermedial poetries in the present day. Burke’s presentation zigzags Z between Gomringer’s work in the 1950s and the mundane bot-fuelled kaomoji-poetics of the present future (*^ω^), arguing that the disappearance of language into image and emoji is a moment of critical reimagination ♲ of the erotic and political potential of language itself ⚘.