Eduardo Kac: Omen
Artist(s):
Title:
- Omen
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 1990
Medium:
- Computer hologram
Size:
- 8 x 10
Category:
Technical Information:
Hardware: Apple Macintosh II.
Software: Swivel 3D.
Other Information:
A holographic poem, or holopoem, is a poem conceived, made, and displayed holographically. This means, first of all, that such a poem is organized in threedimensional space and that even as the reader or viewer observes it, it changes and gives rise to new meanings. Thus as the viewer reads the poem in space-that is, moves around the hologram-he or she constantly modifies the structure of the text. A holopoem is not a poem composed in lines of verse and made into hologram, nor it is a concrete or visual poem adapted to holography. The sequential structure of a line of verse corresponds to linear thinking, where as the simultaneous structure of a concrete or visual poem corresponds to ideographic thinking.
