Poetry in motion on the screens

Abstract

This articles studies multimedia poetry and intends to demonstrate how it nowadays continues a visuality project in search of movement, originating in the Baroque. It shows that the long path of this visual journey, defined by Mallarmé and redefined by concretism, finds its final purpose while transposing itself from the page to the virtual space of the screen, towards the incorporation of the new digital media to its poetic intetion. This paper attempts to show that the hybrid language of visual poetry, with is verbal and iconic interfaces, found in digital technology the possibility of reaching a kinetic image, wich has always been its aim.