Biography - Komninos Zervos

komninos, performance poet, has been poeting since 1985 professionally, taking his poetry to schools, community groups, hotels, music venues, prisons, coffee lounges and universities, radio and television and now the internet. komninos has published two adult collections of poetry with the university of queensland press, komninos and komninos by the kupful, a collection of poetry for children illustrated by peter viska and published by oxford university press, the baby rap and other poems, and a hard cover illustrated children's picture book published by harper/collins, high street, kew east. komninos has had three plays performed by professional theatre companies in sydney and brisbane. in 1992 komninos received the australian human rights award for literature and in 1993 was awarded the australia council's ros bower award for outstanding achievement in community arts. in 1995 komninos completed a masters of arts in creative writing at the university of queensland, he authored a cd-rom of cyberpoetry for his dissertation. in 1997 komninos travelled to london to be writer in residence at artec a multimedia training and resource centre in islington where he authored a cd-rom, cyberpoetry underground. komninos teaches full-time and convenes the CyberStudies major, at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus.komninos' website at http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/K_Zervos.

Komninos says:

"cyberpoetry" is the name i gave to the poetry created on my macintosh lc630avcd, my goal was to create a poetry that was computer generated, that was moving, that was two and three dimensional and that incorporated voice and sound. it was a poetry that could not be published as a traditional print publication. whilst it resembled film-making the text created the images and evoked moods and was always the principle object of every animation and movie.

cyberpoetry poetry that can not be published in the traditional print media,

poetry that moves in time and space, poetry that requires new ways of reading,

poetry that allows interaction, poetry that is digital, aural, visual, and animated.

in 1996 i established a web presence, developing cyberpoetry for the net and a gallery of cyberpoetry from around the globe. since then the site has received 100,000 visitors. i want the site to be as active as possible, a celebration of words/text/sounds, entertaining, informative and fun.