Irma Blank's *asemic writing*

  Thanks to Nerida Newbigin (and Tim Gaze), an English translation of Gillo Dorfles' text on Irma Blank's "Scritture asemantiche" is now available. See the updated post @ gammm : http://gammm.org/index.php/2007/07/18/blank-dorfles/

ea #02 eatasemic / differx. 2013

hyperlow-lowres asemic video

more infos about “an anthology of asemic handwriting”

booktrailer:



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http://www.uitgeverij.cc/publications/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/

http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Asemic-Handwriting-Michael-Jacobson/dp/9081709178/


About the book (from Uitgeverij):
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a calligrapher’s hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending in a postliterate condition in which visual language has superseded words. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is compiled and edited by Tim Gaze from Asemic magazine and Michael Jacobson from The New Post-Literate blog.

Works by:
Reed Altemus, mIEKAL aND, Rosaire Appel, Francesco Aprile, Roy Arenella, Derek Beaulieu, Pat Bell, John M. Bennett, Francesca Biasetton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Tony Burhouse & Rob Glew, Nancy Burr, Riccardo Cavallo, Mauro Césari, Peter Ciccariello, Andrew Clark, Carlfriedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Patrick Collier, Robert Corydon, Jeff Crouch, Marilyn Dammann, Donna Maria Decreeft, Alessandro De Francesco, Monica Dengo, Mirtha Dermisache, Bill Dimichele, Christian Dotremont, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Mark Firth, Eckhard Gerdes, Mike Getsiv, Jean-Christophe Giacottino, Marco Giovenale, Meg Green, Brion Gysin, Jeff Hansen, Huái Sù, Geof Huth, Isidore Isou, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Rashid Koraishi, Irene Koronas, Edward Kulemin, Lê Quốc Việt & Trần Trọng Dương, Jim Leftwich, Misha Magazinnik, Matt Margo, André Masson, Nuno de Matos, Willi Melnikov, Morita Shiryu, Sheila E. Murphy, Nguyễn Đức Dũng, Nguyễn Quang Thắng, Phạm Văn Tuấn, François Poyet, Kerri Pullo, Lars Px, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Roland Sabatier, Ekaterina Samigulina & Yuli Ilyshchanska, Alain Satié, Karen L. Schiff, Spencer Selby, Peggy Shearn, Ahmed Shibrain, Christopher Skinner, Hélène Smith, Lin Tarczynski, Morgan Taubert, Andrew Topel, Cecil Touchon, Louise Tournay, Trần Trọng Dương, Lawrence Upton, Sergio Uzal, Marc van Elburg, Nico Vassilakis, Glynda Velasco, Simon Vinkenoog, Vsevolod Vlaskine, Cornelis Vleeskens, Anthony Vodraska, Voynich Manuscript, Jim Wittenberg, Michael Yip, Logan K. Young, Yorda Yuan, Camille Zehenne, Zhāng Xù, & others

About asemic writing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
http://asemic.net/
http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.it/
http://asemic-net.blogspot.it/
http://foffof2.blogspot.it/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/76178850228/
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#%21forum/asemic


 

asemic magazine, #3

thanks to Tim Gaze :

asemic magazine 3

[ hi-res version here: http://xpressed.sdf-eu.org/asemicmag/amvol3.pdf = 5Mb ]

Incontri / Golnaz Fathi, Francesca Biasetton. 2004

call for English translation of a short essay by Gillo Dorfles

the critic & artist Gillo Dorfles probably invented the Italian term «scrittura asemantica» in 1974 or earlier.

his essay to accompany the art of Irma Blank can be read at gammm.

is anyone interested to attempt an English translation?

we can always improve it, if the original version is rough.