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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.
Bibliography
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Poetry
• Love Poems, Asylum Press, 1974 • Proverbsi (with Ken Norris), Asylum Press, 1978. • No Parking, Véhicule Press, 1978. • Poetry in Performance, The Muses’ Company, 1982. • Ex Perimeter, Caitlin Press, 1988. • Sleepwalking Among The Camels: New and Selected Poems, The Muses’ Company, 1998. • OOSOOM (Out of Sight Out of Mind), Bookthug, 2007. • “Perfect Answers to Silent Questions”, Ekstasis Editions, 2015.
Videopoems
• Sympathies of War (1978) 10 Min. • Mummypoem (Sympathies of War - A Postscript) (1978) 6 Min. • See/Saw (with Ken Norris)(1978) 15 Min. • Ubu’s Blues (1979) 22 Min.Yellow Light Blues (1980) 15 Min. • And Once They Have Tasted Freedom (1981) 3 Min. • No Parking (1982) 10:30 min. • Not Before Nor After (1982) 3 Min. (with Linda Lee Tracy) • Quebecause (1982) 2 Min. • Thus Spoke Tzarathustra (1983) 6 Min. • Sign Language (1985) 4 Min. • Percussion (1993) 30 Sec. • Hopscotch (1993) 60 Sec. • A Poem for the Rivers Project (2004) (with Alex Konyves) 2 Min. • Beware of Dog (2008) 4 min. • All This Day Is Good For (2010) 3 min. • ow(n)ed (2014) 6 min.
Theory
• Videopoetry. A Manifesto (2011)
