Works the reader navigates rather than watches — hypertext, net-art, and interactive poetry where the path is the reading. It begins with the original net-art of the early web in 1995 and runs to a computational edition of a modernist poet and a public installation of shifting sonnets.
1995 — 2001 · net-art poetry
The original net-art and hypermedia poetry environment — the word Bonilla coined, the seed of everything that followed, and the work Rodolfo Mata discovered online in 1999, opening two decades of collaboration. It carried the online Péndulo, the first Mexican electronic literary magazine on the web.
1998 · interactive work
An early interactive self-portrait built in Director — among the earliest surviving pieces of the practice.
2002 · new-media installation
A new-media installation on internet relationships and intimacy, made in collaboration with Rachel Clark.
2003 — 2020 · electronic scholarly edition
A computational electronic edition of José Juan Tablada's collected poetry — 550 poems read by tracing words through two hyper-indexes — developed with Rodolfo Mata (UNAM), published in 2020. It grew from Bonilla's Poesía Densa system (2003).
Hosted by UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas.
2011 — 2013 · interactive poetry & installation
Thirty-five classical sonnets reconfigured by the time of day, drawn from more than 13,000 images and 120 musical elements — a public installation and interactive poem, with José de Jesús Del Toro.
Presented at MICA, Argentina's Mercado de Industrias Culturales.
The roots run back to poetry on paper — El Anfiteatro de la Memoria (1992) and the magazine Péndulo. See all hypermedia & poetry on the timeline →