“Screens” imagines a dystopic, screen-dominated world periodically updated like an operative system. A world made of pixels, code and glitches. Under the abrasive light of electronic devices, in a play between reality and appearance, a new lineage redefines what it means to be alive now. Meanwhile, memories of “the ancestors” still come to mind: paper, shadows and warmth. From its not so distant world, the poems of “Screens” reflect on identity, desire, memory and touch.
The project is a part of the subthemes Technopoetics - AI, Digital Media and the Future of Creativity, Poetry and the Digital Commons - New platforms, new audiences.
Author
Celia Parra
Celia Parra (Ourense, 1990) is a Galician poet, author of two poetry books: Pantallas (Galaxia, 2018) and No berce das mareas (Fervenza, 2009). She has been included in diverse anthologies of contemporary Galician poetry: Poesía Galega Novísima (Urutau, 2020), Poesía bajo sospecha (Animal Sospechoso, 2020), 13 antoloxía da poesía galega próxima (Chan da Pólvora-papelesmínimos, 2017), No seu despregar (Apiario, 2016), among others. Her poems have been translated to different languages (English, Finnish, French, Catalan and Spanish) and published in anthologies of poetry in translation such as Villielämää – nuoren galicialaisen runouden antologia (Parkko, 2022) and magazines such as Shearsman Magazine, The Stinging Fly or HeadStuff.
She focuses in the hybridation of poetry with other formats, specializing in videopoetry. She was the creator of the original idea and also the executive producer of Versogramas / Verses&Frames (Belén Montero and Juan Lesta, 2018), a groundbreaking documentary about the international videopoetry scene. Her own videopoems have been awarded and selected at plenty of international festivals (Weimar Poetryfilm Award Festival, Versi di Luce, International Videopoetry Festival of Athens, Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival etc). Parra has performed multimedia poetry readings at Poetas Di(n)versos (curated by Yolanda Castaño in A Coruña, Spain), Weimar Poetry Film Award (Weimar, Germany) and Winter Warmer Poetry Festival (Cork, Ireland).
