Jenny Weight

Jenny Weight
Occupation	Lectuer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, writer, and artist
Nationality	Australian
Notable awards	trace-Alt-X International Hypertext Competition

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Jenny Weight, also known by her online handle "geniwate," is an Australian lecturer, writer, and artist. She is best known for her electronic poetry, particularly her works "Rice" and "Generative Poetry," and other contributions to the field of electronic literature. She currently works at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology as a lecturer in the School of Media and Communication and publishes critical works on electronic literature and networked media.

Weight began working with poetry in Adelaide, Australia in 1995 when she joined Friendly Street Poets, an Australian open mic community. Her notable works include, "Rice," "Neppabuna", "The Princess Murderer", and the journal Generative Poetry.

Creative Works

In 1998, Weight published her first notable piece of electronic literature: "Rice," a collection of poems about visiting Vietnam and its cultural and political undercurrents. In the work, Weight utilizes different forms of electronic media including recorded sounds, photographs (contributed by photographer Oscar Ferriero), and animation in addition to her written poems. Weight describes the work as a "hypertextual anthology of poems focusing on my experience as a Western tourist in Vietnam" that deals with "issues of colonialism, war, poverty, and cultural differences."

In the years following the publication of "Rice," Weight published two more pieces of online literature: "Neppabunna" in 2001 and "The Princess Murderer." With both works, Weight continued to explore multimedia in electronic literature by including things like audio clips.

In 2005, Weight published "Generative Poetry," an online journal. The journal contained an online gallery with collaborator Brian Kim Stefans called "When You Reach Kyoto," a work whose title comes from the Brian Eno song "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More." "When You Reach Kyoto" employs what Weight called concatenation: weaving and layering differently sized and styled texts overtop super-saturated images of Stefans's. Also with "Generative Poetry" is Weight's "Concatenation," a piece that combines letters in different ways according to how the reader follows the algorithms. "Concatenation" deals with issues like racial conflict and politics of despair. Semtexts is the third entry of Weight's "Generative Poetry," designed to combined meaningful syllables in ways that force the reader to consider new and unexpected concepts.

Weight published "Dibagan" in 2006 in the journal "I Heart E-Poetry," On this project, collaborated with Stefans, creating a poem over the backdrop of the site of an RPG attack in Iraq. In this experience, the reader can move and manipulate the words and word order to read the poem in different ways.

Awards and Accomplishments

In 1999, Weight won the trace-Alt-X International Hypertext Competition for her 1998 work "Rice," a collection of multimedia poems about Vietnam. Her next work, "Neppabunna," was named a finalist at the Electronic Literature Organization's international competition in 2001. In 2004, she won the Mayne Award for Multimedia at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

External sources

• "Generative Poetry" Electronic Literature Directory
• "Geniwate" elmcip.net.

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