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International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia
About Tom Konyves Tom Konyves is a writer, poet, videopoet and videopoetry theorist teaching Visual Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford/Canada. His career began in Montreal in the late 1970s, when he joined one of Canada’s first artist-run centres, Vehicule Art, where he was instrumental in the forming of the 7 Vehicule Poets. In 1978, he coined the term “videopoetry” to describe his first interdisciplinary work, “Sympathies of War”, and is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the form. In 2008, he began research in the field of videopoetry, publishing the groundbreaking Videopoetry: A Manifesto in 2011, which defines the hybrid genre, assigns constraints and categories to differentiate its various manifestations and specifities. He has been invited to address numerous festivals, conferences and symposiums, presenting his vision of the genre of videopoetry. He lives in White Rock, BC, Canada.
