멀티포엠과 디카시(詩)의 전략

Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing two contemporary aspects of Korean poems, known as multipoem and dicapoem. These two novel trends represent the ways Korean poems take to surviving in the era of socal network by adopting strategies of utilizing multi-media languages. Chang Kyong-ki, a leader in the multipoem society, proclaimed the first declaration of multipoems in August, 1996, and continued helping the new attempt settle and stabilize itself by holding several multipoem movements and events, such as, Digital Manhe Festival, Multipoem Academy, Multipoem Contests, Multipoem Exhibitions, and the Multipoem Performance Festival. However, although the multipoem movement is significant in that it has utilized computers and calls for change, it is still hard to define multipoem as a unique new genre because it focuses more on the outward expansion by bringing in the image poems on the internet, flash multimedia poems, large size poems, framed poems, and porcelain ware poems. On the other hand, Lee Sang-ok published the first dica (digital camera) poem book titled "The Way to Kosung" in 2004. He has ever since helped his development further grow and settle down by opening a net cafe, holding dica poem contests and festivals, publishing a dicapoem periodical, and hosting meetings for dica poems researches. In the early 90s, dica poems remained a simple subject in the minor culture, but gradually found its way in the medium of digital environment. Dicapoem had a challenge to answer the general question of compatibility between the picture images and the text, despite the undeniable characteristics lying in utilizing the digital cameras in creating poems. Despite the several problems the multipoem and dicapoem have posed, it is true that they both attract the public interest in that the two similarly command multi-media languages, transcending the mere letters. The multipoem actively utilize the multi-media while the dicapoem accommodate the digital camera images, a kind of basic multi-media language, in conjunction with letters. In this respect, they may well be both considered a new poetic genre in the multimedia era. There is a strong potential for both multipoem and dicapoem to naturalize as an indispensible genre in the digital era, particularly if more progressive theorists participate and develop sophisticated poetics.