What is a poetic act? How do we express it? A poetic act is not imprinting memories on a text, but neutralize the text itself. Like what Le Corbusier said in reference to looking the architectures at night, according to which it can be enjoyed better than during the day-gaze, the poetry can be experienced on a total black screen, on a total black wall of text, on a surface that hides the poetic expression itself.
During a period of self-confinement (continued with the period due to Covid-19 pandemic) in which I dedicated my time to the exploration of the spaces of several videogames, I have matured poetic thoughts in conjunction with my action inside the gaming performance. Paradoxically, the medium of action, dynamism and movement started to begin a medium for non-action, quietness, self reflection. But this isn’t an exception within the videoludic medium: but a demonstration of its other function as an instrument for generation of new meanings and radical thinking.
I have taken various screenshot from videogames that I played during the period mentioned above and insert inside their file codes a set of poetry write by me, one per each, using an Hex editor. The result is a visual amalgamation amidst my quietly-explorative actions and my generative poetic input.
The photos, a selection of twelve and printed on photographic paper, are accompanied by the printing of the poems used to edit them. The poems are in Italian.
