Oczy Tygrysa

"Łukasz Podgórni is a graphic artist and creator of applications and unidentified literary objects; he sculpts in audio files and trains speech synthesizers during stage performances. Urszula Pawlicka is a PhD student at the University of Warmia and Mazury, a member of the Laboratory of the Intersemiotic and Intermedia Research at the University of Warsaw, a participant in Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada 2014, a Fulbright Scholar at Washington State University, WA in Creative Media and Digital Culture (2014/2015), and is currently a researcher at Stony Brook University in English Department." 

"Oczy Tygrysa (Eyes of the Tiger) is an example of an online flash adaptation of the poems of an avant-guard poet (formist) from the interwar period, Tytus Czyżewski.The authors of the adaptation, poet Łukasz Podgóni and electronic literature researcher Urszula Pawlicka chose to adapt Czyżewski's pieces that speak explicitly to issues of mediation and mechanization. Czyżewski's poetry serves as a precursor to the forms of aesthetic experimentation now common in electronic literature, anticipating hypertextual, interactive, generative, and kinetic forms of writing. The inspiration for this adaptation was the paraphrased words of Mark Amerika 'What would Czyżewski the Formist do with new media?' Oczy Tygrysa shows how interwar poetry complements the language of new media both in terms of composition as well as semantics." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3