[1] In 1978, Canadian poet Tom Konyves used the term "videopoetry"[2] to describe "Sympathies of War",[3] his first work in the genre, and is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the form.
"[4] In the early 1980s Gianni Toti began mixing cinema, poetry text, and electronic images to create a new genre called "poetronica".
In general, his video poem operas are films produced with the support of cultural centers such as the Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer (CICV) in Montbéliard (France) and various universities.
Gianni Toti could be considered the intellectual father of the term and the most active researcher on the subject, developing several conceptual and artistic derivative artifacts such as "VideoPoemOpera", "VideoSyntheatronica", "VideoPoemetti", among others.
In the late 1980s, Richard Kostelanetz produced video poems and fictions exclusive of kinetic words by using Amiga text programs.