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Presenter: Chris Funkhouser Conference: The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Panel: Remix culture, machinima, and mash-ups ABSTRACT Cannibalistic Tendencies in Digital Poetry: Recent Observations Personal Practices Augusto de Campos has explained that the ritual anthropophagy (cannibalism) initially cultivated in writing by Oswald de Andrade eighty years ago is a branch of cannibalism in which the cannibal eats its enemy not for greed or for anger but to inherit its qualities. In previous papers on the subject, I explain how anthropophagic textuality bears relevance to digital poetry as many author(s) engage with multiple languages or idioms, devour other texts, icons, and freely remix discrepant methods and philosophical approaches to expression to achieve noteworthy ends. Discovery and re-discovery of meaning is reached through the process, through which alternative cultural or personal perspectives emerge through a type of engineered textual composting. Through anthropophagy, artists reshape external influences in an open acknowledgment of plurality. This discussion examines the contemporary outlook on digital poetry as a cannibalistic practice, both from critical and creative points of view. In addition to reviewing ways creative cannibalism was reflected in contents of presentations made at E-Poetry 2009, I will discuss its influence on my own practice as an artist.  Cannibalistic Tendencies with Computers: Recent Observations Personal Practices The Warning For love—I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes. Love is dead in us if we forget the virtues of an amulet and quick surprise —Robert Creeley (140) At the last two E-Poetry festivals my papers addressed creative cannibalism, anthropophagy, as an active component (or characteristic) of digital poetry, a topic that clearly relates to this panel’s theme. My initial articulations on the topic gave rise to follow-up d