Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
From World to Wor[]d
An interview about linguistics, visual art, and asemic writing on Asymptote.
Physicist-turned-artist Federico Federici works across visual poetry, asemic writing, and conceptual art. Drawing inspiration from physical and mathematical concepts, semiotics, philosophy, and music, he bridges the gap between science and art—two seemingly opposing disciplines—to interrogate the nature of writing, interpretation, and signification. Unbound by forms and conventions, Federici’s work alerts us to strange yet delightful observations of what language and art can do and the extent to which they can evolve. “What I sought was not a rejection of scientific reasoning but an extension of its methodologies into domains where ambiguity, rupture, and non-linearity were central. The aesthetic and, in a sense, the ethical dimension of meaning-making became my new field of research,” the artist declares.
In the following interview, Federici and I began our conversation on his career beginnings. We discuss the intersection of linguistics and physics, the structures of different languages in his practice, how asemic writing reconfigures meaning and the reception of meaning, and John Cage, one of his biggest artistic influences.
—Junyi Zhou, Assistant Visual Editor
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
Objects under investigation (report - reperti) - Artist's talk at Kunsttempel
„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.- - - - [4] [...] A medium is an intrinsic characteristic of the phenomenon under investigation (namely: of the artistic practice), whose essence is revealed by the incompleteness (or even by the failure) of its translation. From a linguistic point of view, a medium partakes as an idiom of a particular art practice, as the trait that cannot thoroughly be translated into /transferred to another practice. A medium sets itself as a middle term – in an updated etymological sense – between ‘reality’ (whatever one may define by this) and ‘reification’ or, narrowing the scope, between what an art piece is aimed at (‘objectivity’) and what it ultimately consists of (‘objectification’). It is a ‘tension’ in both that objectivity and objectification tend to overlapping (while hardly or partially actually doing) and in the sense of the tensor which defines the metric of the space (mathematical, artistic and so forth) under investigation. It is a method (a set of rules or procedures) to work out the cross-breeding of different practices, like the folding of surfaces in abstract geometry. [...] - - - - [7] [...] This said, quantum mechanics opens up an inspirational way to discuss and develop the word-sign dualism, but before diving into it, a couple of rather acceptable ideas: 1) a word is a lump of signification as much as a particle is a lump of matter 2) when you observe a sign conventionally identified as a word, you immediately access its signification - - - - [9] [...] The unsupervised superposition of many signs determines a sort of interference pattern of sense. A single sign, like a single electron, “knows”, if not disturbed by signification, how to take part in an arrangement that preserves high textual quality, while being essentially abstract in expression. The ‘writer’ (let’s keep using this term for the artist dealing with a ‘textual’ medium) triggers the underlying relational structure for the ‘reader’ (to use another conventional term) to complete or detect further elements of writing. It is a kind of disjunctive writing, since they both separately partake in defining the textual experience. [...] - - - - Downloads and further resources freely accessible here: https://federicofederici.net/category/webinar/ http://leserpent.wordpress.com - - - - "Workbook of the universe" installation uploaded here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2199743/2199660
Hyperconnectivity as an Asemic of Something Else / EZE, 2025
Asemic Fashion and Finding a Fit (or Not)
Hyperconnectivity
Between
Coherence as the Between of History
Algorithm
Revert to the Before?
Delay and Other Speeds
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Auden Asemics / EZE, 2025
Nothing Is a Problem
Whispers Ensconce Disaffection, Hiding What Is Not Hidden,
Which Is Disappointment
Tweeness
Notes
Asemic Tuning / EZE, 2025
Federico Federici
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Iconic Log | Foreword [Pure Means] by Nils Röller
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observation of thin rock sections
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Iconic Log | Afterword by Michael Betancourt
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Tuning Loop(s)
Mitsunobu Matsuyama ~ The Quadrilateral Conundrum That Tricks the Eye
Loop Tuner
Critical Discourse Analysis on the Failure to Tune
Tuning Logic
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Psychology as Asemics ~ On the Ambiguity of Literary Device / EZE, 2025
Strings
Top Brass
Wood for Irony
Snare
Slide Trombone
Disco Ball
Monday, April 7, 2025
Toward Finite Math / EZE.2025
J.P. Mayberry
John Penn Mayberry (Wikipedia)
Natural Number Arithmetic in the Theory of Finite Sets by J. P. Mayberry and Richard Pettigrew
The Foundation of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets (Internet Archive)
Foundations of Mathematics (The n-Category Cafe)
Set Theory
Set Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
An Introduction to Set Theory by William A. R. Weiss
Sets, Relations, Functions by Ivo Düntsch and Günther Gedigas
A Book of Set Theory by Charles C. Pinter
Notes on Set Theory ... by Andrew Marks
Mathematical Foundations a la Set Theory
Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics by Sylvain Poirier
Anti-Cantor Theory (Wikipedia)
The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory by Colin McLarty
Set Theory and its Place in the Foundations of Mathematics by Mirna Dzamonja
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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