Neopoetics Motigraphs Anthology 1 is an augmented reality art book that poetically reframes human embodiment and embodied potential. It illuminates a new poetic vision through an aesthetic manifesto, 55 original images, and 22 QR codes that link to kinetic digital artworks.
Neopoetics® is experiential poetry composed on the canvas of the body. It is a futurist collection of embodied aesthetic experiences designed to activate and ignite the human neurosensory system in new ways. The artistic gesture of Neopoetics is neurosensory choreography. Like an inner shower, the experience is embodied, kinetic, immersive, abstract. Neopoetics' virtual choreographies are the inside of a dance. Colors, shapes, rhythms, and codes shift, align, calibrate, and transform the neurosensory system. At once futurist and ancient, emergent and organic, Neopoetics is a metamorphic new experience of art.
Heather Raikes is an artist, designer and creative leader catalyzing next-generation sensory experiences. At once futurist and archaic, emergent and organic, her work is a syncretic gesture that opens new apertures into the embodied poetics of human being. Raikes began her career as a modern dancer with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, a premise she expanded into emerging media - probing future-focused culture, art, and technology through the lens of the body. Heather Raikes' artwork has been presented throughout the world at venues such as HEREArt, Lincoln Center, Culturgest, and LeCube. Her emerging media design work has received numerous honors, including a Digital Innovation Emmy Award, exhibition at the Tokyo Olympics, and an Oculus Launch Pad fellowship. Heather Raikes develops and drives creative research as systematic methodology for catalyzing innovation. Her research has been presented widely and published in the International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology (IJACDT), Technoetic Arts, American Communication Journal, and Body, Space & Technology. Heather Raikes holds a Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from DXARTS, University of Washington, and conducted postdoctoral research through Roy Ascott's Planetary Collegium. She is founder and director of Creative Research Studios and the creator of Neopoetics®.
