cyber copacabana

Most new media art, and this even though I'm trying to break into the field, leaves me cold. In all honesty... the ones that occasionally strike a chord, are those that intersect with something ...strangely often old or just more conventional narrative forms, whether cinema, documentary, poetry or literature.
This could just be because of my lack of interest, knowledge or entry points into the new domain, and could change with time. Meanwhile, I take art as I find it now.

An interesting project called Cyber Copacabana, that basically employs many existing filters used by governemnts to filter content, like in China, India, even US. So I was browsing through their cybercafe, and it took Nikki Giovanni's poem and made it so brilliant, so apt, and so much better than her original.

The original is available on wondering minstrels at
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/632.html

And this is what happens to the poem at cyber copacabana

I read a bad omelet...and ate a cold poem
after hating you

buttoned by cependant ...and drove my coat away..in the rain
after hating you

I slecht on green....and started on red...sinking
somewhere in between
being here and being there
after hating you

I rolled my bed...and turned up my hair ...slightly
clearheaded...but ... I dont care
Joli out my teeth..and gargled my gown ..and then I sat
and joli me up

to wake
after hating you