Guest Talk on Digital H(ai)ku: An Introduction
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SUMMARY OF THE OVERALL EVENT |
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The
Department of Languages, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), The Hub of
Analytics, Pune Lavasa Campus organized a Guest Talk on “Digital h(AI)ku: An
Introduction” by Ms Rachayita Bhattacharyya on 8th April 2024 at 6 PM. Ms Bhattacharyya is a PhD scholar of
Literary Studies at the School of Liberal Arts (SoLA), IIT Jodhpur. Her
research focuses on the gendered aspects of English haiku in the Indian
context and its workings in the digital space. She is also interested in the
role played by feminine subjectivity in the learning, composing, and
performing of the short verse form. She sees poetry as a bridge between
interactive community-building and individual autonomous expression. Her
other interests include short visual narrative forms like Instagram reels.
The session was conducted online on Google Meet platform and was open to all
haiku enthusiasts. It started with a brief introduction of the resource
person. The talk commenced by providing a brief context and definition of
Electronic Literature. The speaker explained the emerging genre of “digital
poetry” and outlined some of its defining features such as movement,
interactivity and apparatus. The talk then delved into a brief history of the
haiku form with its origins in Japanese culture. Japanese poets like Matsuo
Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiri and Kyoshi Takahama are
considered to be pioneers of the form. The historical time period known as
the Meiji Restoration saw increased contact with the West. As a result of
these increased interactions, there was also an exchange of culture which
resulted in the spread of haiku poetry to other parts of the world. The
speaker drew the attention of the participants to Yone Noguchi, the first
Japanese writer to publish poetry in the English language. His work is said
to have inspired later beat poets as well as the Imagist School of poetry in
England and America. In India, the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the
Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi experimented with the haiku form and created
works of enduring beauty. In recent years, the haiku form has seen a revival
in India with the work of famous poets like Satya Bhushan Verma and Kala
Ramesh who is credited with the establishment of the Triveni Haikai India,
a thriving community of haikai lovers and practitioners. In the second part
of the talk, Ms Bhattacharyya focussed on the recent digital haiku
experiments such as collaborative poetry writing, interactive haiku/art,
generative and hypertext haiku. These experiments have resulted in the
creation of projects and platforms such as HaikuJam App, Doom haikus,
Leaning Haiku, Volvelle and Yohannes Artinyan’s Digital Haiku.
Participants were invited to collaboratively create digital haiku using open
access AI tools such as hAIku and Aiku. The speaker then
deliberated on questions of agency and autonomy in generative poetry. This
was followed by a brief Q&A session and the Vote of Thanks. The
participants expressed their interest in being part of such events in the
future that deal with the intersection of traditional poetry and its modern
digital forms.     |
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OUTCOMES OF THE EVENT |
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Outcome 1: Understand how digital
tools can be used to create haiku Outcome 2: Appreciate emerging
trends in haiku poetry in English Outcome 3: Explore opportunities for creative writing, research and collaboration |
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SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT • FEEDBACK FROM
IQAC |
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(This
page must be at the end of the report, after all the attachments mentioned in
the next page. The observations could be made by Department Level IQAC based
on the feedback received from various attendees. Furthermore, various
strategies could be suggested for better organisation of the upcoming events) |
Date:
15-05-2024
Dr Richa Srishti Ms Elizabeth Varkey
Head/Coordinator Faculty
Coordinator/Organiser IQAC
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