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Ralph Hoyte

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Poetry — Bristol, UK

Plate 043 — Ralph HoyteRiso · 0.18 line · dip pen — plate Dust teal / brick

Biography

Mission statement

Poetry is using words to say what words cannot say.

Synopsis

Bristol-based poet, sound artist and text-based artist whose practice spans live-art poetry, spatial and sculptural text, and augmented soundscapes. In 2004 he wrote 1831 RIOT!, described as the first located radio play within an intelligent environment. He co-founded the artists' collective Satsymph with composer Marc Yeats and audio engineer Phill Phelps, and has been a resident at Bristol's Pervasive Media Studio — site-specific and locative poetry that only works where it was written for.

Site-specific and locative poetry — text that only works where it is written for.

There is no 'must' in art, because art is free.

— Wassily Kandinsky