Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Tokyo is both the inspiration and the studio for both Simon's glitch art and Zoria's cyber[punk] poetry. We create on the move, oftentimes on the commute, with the excitement, immediacy and restlessness that only Tokyo can stir up, and because the nature of the city also limits time and space for creativity. It's a utopian/dystopian cocktail you can taste in the art and poetry of this book, both tackling themes including futurism, euphoria, belonging, hypercapitalism, alienation, devices and internet addiction.

Although the art and the poetry were created separately, we soon converged and realized they complement each other. The glitch art looks the way Tokyo feels. It's shifting, chaotic, exciting and it's unfathomable. Simon digitally paints with deconstruction, disintegration, repetition, multiplication, stretching and reflection. The separation of spaces in the image and in the architecture opens up a fourth spatial dimension of sorts. The poems are glitchy too - with odd word and line placements, stretched rules of punctuation and grammar, neologisms, imagined linguistic shifts in the future, foreign languages sneaked in. One poem title is tucked at the bottom of the poem, while another poem is looped back and forth ("Are You Still Watching?" - alluding to binge watching media).

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Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Tokyo is both the inspiration and the studio for both Simon's glitch art and Zoria's cyber[punk] poetry. We create on the move, oftentimes on the commute, with the excitement, immediacy and restlessness that only Tokyo can stir up, and because the nature of the city also limits time and space for creativity. It's a utopian/dystopian cocktail you can taste in the art and poetry of this book, both tackling themes including futurism, euphoria, belonging, hypercapitalism, alienation, devices and internet addiction.

Although the art and the poetry were created separately, we soon converged and realized they complement each other. The glitch art looks the way Tokyo feels. It's shifting, chaotic, exciting and it's unfathomable. Simon digitally paints with deconstruction, disintegration, repetition, multiplication, stretching and reflection. The separation of spaces in the image and in the architecture opens up a fourth spatial dimension of sorts. The poems are glitchy too - with odd word and line placements, stretched rules of punctuation and grammar, neologisms, imagined linguistic shifts in the future, foreign languages sneaked in. One poem title is tucked at the bottom of the poem, while another poem is looped back and forth ("Are You Still Watching?" - alluding to binge watching media).

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Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Dystokyo: Cyberpunk Poetry and Glitch Art

Overview

Tokyo is both the inspiration and the studio for both Simon's glitch art and Zoria's cyber[punk] poetry. We create on the move, oftentimes on the commute, with the excitement, immediacy and restlessness that only Tokyo can stir up, and because the nature of the city also limits time and space for creativity. It's a utopian/dystopian cocktail you can taste in the art and poetry of this book, both tackling themes including futurism, euphoria, belonging, hypercapitalism, alienation, devices and internet addiction.

Although the art and the poetry were created separately, we soon converged and realized they complement each other. The glitch art looks the way Tokyo feels. It's shifting, chaotic, exciting and it's unfathomable. Simon digitally paints with deconstruction, disintegration, repetition, multiplication, stretching and reflection. The separation of spaces in the image and in the architecture opens up a fourth spatial dimension of sorts. The poems are glitchy too - with odd word and line placements, stretched rules of punctuation and grammar, neologisms, imagined linguistic shifts in the future, foreign languages sneaked in. One poem title is tucked at the bottom of the poem, while another poem is looped back and forth ("Are You Still Watching?" - alluding to binge watching media).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781957704128
Publisher: Tokyo Poetry Journal Publications
Publication date: 12/03/2024
Pages: 66
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Zoria is a polyglot, polymath, poet, a neo-Tokyoite telling stories about the city that take a myriad of forms, from travelogues to experimental visual poems. Whenever possible, she will bend language to create a "wordigami" or grow a poetry bonsai. She has come up with the Poetry Archeology creative writing method for which she holds workshops and has been an early proponent of cyber(punk) and futuristic poetry. She is an award-winning translator, editor-in-chief of the literary journal [Ш] and editor at Tokyo Poetry Journal. Zoria holds a Master's degree in English Literature and Translation, with postgraduate research studies in Japanese visual poetry from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Zoria's book of visual poetry and calligraphy titled "Зборигами" (Matica, 2015) or "Wordigami" in English depicts Japan through haiku-esque poems written in the shape of kanji characters. After moving to Tokyo, in 2017 she created her "Distilled Emotion: Neuromancer's Tokyo" exhibition (both in Tokyo and Skopje), experimenting with visual poetry made of punctuation and thematically exploring William Gibson's cyberpunk classic. In 2020 she first started publishing poems she labeled cyber[punk] and she gave a presentation on innovation and futurism in poetry at The Japan Writers Conference 2021.

When Simon isn't glitching views of Tokyo he took on the city streets, you can find him drawing meticulously detailed bird-eye views of this metropolis. His fascination with urban cityscapes dates back to his time in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He exhibited "Citygraphy," a series of Tokyo and Seoul cityscapes painted with acrylics on canvas, in 2015 in Skopje. Drawing Tokyo became Simon's full time job in 2016 when he moved to Tokyo and started working for the architecture firm Nikken Sekkei.Simon is an award-winning futurist, often drawing Tokyo as it might or will become in the future. This goes beyond his architectural illustration, as he has always had an imaginative mind and is constantly creating new cities, worlds and stories. He is the creator of the Araknights Gothika Project and "Verlossen" (Flip Book Books, 2023) an art book with prose and poetry by 14 writers accompanying his art.
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