'Vergeet je vlees': Lichamelijkheid en virtualiteit in de VR-poëzie van Micha Hamel en Demian Albers
Vanden Berghe,Ruben Bluijs,Siebe
Vanden Berghe,Ruben
Bluijs,Siebe
Abstract
Recent years saw the development of VR-poetry as a subset of electronic literature and VR-art. This article examines the interplay between estrangement and immersion in two Dutch-language VR-poems by poet Micha Hamel and developer Demian Albers. To explore how the lyrical mode intersects with the embodied and virtual affordances of VR-technology, we draw on Jonathan Culler’s theory on the lyrical ‘triangulated address.’ We discuss how this theory helps us to analyse the self-reflexive strategies used in these VR-poems, as well as the self-reflexive potential of VR-poetry. Given the inherently embodied nature of VR-technology, we argue that VR-poetry opens up new possibilities for reconsidering the embodied dimensions of the lyric genre.
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2025
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Research Projects
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Virtual Reality (VR), poetry, embodiment
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Vanden Berghe, R & Bluijs, S 2025, ''Vergeet je vlees': Lichamelijkheid en virtualiteit in de VR-poëzie van Micha Hamel en Demian Albers', Spiegel der Letteren, vol. 67, no. 2-3, pp. 225-246. https://doi.org/10.2143/SDL.67.2.3294992
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