Yan Vygovsky — poet, critic, co-curator of literary readings and
discussions. He published poetry on the Internet, reviews in magazines
Vozduh and New Literary Observer. The author of the poetic objectbook Ranit odnogo, zadenet vseh (Argo-risk, 2018). Yan Vygovsky was
included in the long list of Arkady Dragomoshchenko Award (2017)

In a constantly developing world of digital communication, poetical
text acquires a variety of forms and meanings, moreover — of ways to
interact with a reader/viewer. It is well known that in a feld of so-called
electronic literature work is done not with lexical elements of the text
or a certain number of words, but with a networked space in general as
with foundation-canvas that absorbs other forms.
User of contemporary media space fully accepts social networks' feeds
and all sorts of windows (target ads, search bars, etc.) as an integral
part of everyday life. He loses sensibility for both material and temporal
features of media space. Digitalised text-displacement offers another
way of reading and perception combining scrolling (as a typical feature
for every reader/viewer) and temporality (closing to invisibility feature
that is being lost). This offers to perceive poetical text in its immanent
way — with slow reading inside constantly moving space text is made
of