Typography in Interactive Poetry: Gestures and Their Contributions to Reading Multiplicities

Como se constrói uma casa: moving and interactive typography in digital and audio-visual environments

“…(Small, 1999). New supports emerged at the end of the 20th century, with the launch and democratization of personal computers and the consolidation and proliferation of digital platforms, making the use of typography as a visual form even more noticeable (Palos et al, 2019;Rebelo et al, 2018). According to Betancourt (2019), contemporary digital animation software allows for a wide spectrum of animations using typography, such as configuring letters in animorphs (a portmanteau of animation and morphemes) or superimposing typographic visual effects on live images.…”

“…The poetic text finds new paths in visual poetry, which unite the word with the exploration of space via non-linearity and syntactic inversion and disorder, giving rise to a new aesthetic which culminates in the creation of digital poetry (Neitzel & Bridon, 2013;Palos et al, 2019). In turn, digital poetry fosters discussions on concepts related to the interaction between readers and poems.…”

“…Digital poetry has a categorical element in typography since, as previously mentioned, it incorporates graphic and visual components into text and enables the materialization of the poem in a way which favours the interaction between words. Regarding the interactivity digital poetry provides, the reader-poem interaction can materialize, for example, via the former's gestures, establishing a kind of dialogue in which their movements can give rise to different interpretations (Palos et al, 2019). This direct agency readers can have in these works by manipulating their typographic elements constitutes a new way of interpreting poems and makes these creations: "um convite a leituras diversas, a significações variadas, cabendo ao leitor construir significados" (Neitzel & Bridon, 2013, p. 131).…”