Asemic 1

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Asemic ~ 1 [the very first issue]

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Downhill Asemics; madness on the continuum

First;
 Kurt Schwitters, step by step removes all syntactic structure from the text.



 Kurt Schwitters to the Swiss Dadaist Arp. Blackberries (2)

belivered pra! 
 first I say why?
 why does one use upper case and lower case? i use only lower case. then I say why? why does one punctuate i write everything without punctuationthen i ask why why does one use umlauts i won't be straight diacritical henceforth i will write zurich ful- fills seclusion personal carryover and then i remember the old phrase from mathematics namely that it does not matter in which order i add respect multiply and now i write vole instead of love because love needs voles to love voles and finally now will  giveup the or derofwordsamongthemselvesbywritingonlyo
egiantwordorwhilemorewrotitsoladinorthographyisnaturallyunimportantandsenseigiveupinfavorofnonsenseandthustheitsheklmnopqrsutabelgikemaminopetroleumplaguekakrrkrrksrsto-pitonobilamenteyakkaanteelinguekitonpausbacrocodilemmadiemadilemma *)

                                                                                   kuwitter

*)Here the typographer went stark raving mad and threatened a general strike,  should he be forced to set any more Kuhgewitter (Cowweather).
(from; Pppppp: Kurt Schwitters Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics )

Then;
Charles Crumb removes all distinguishability between letters and reduces punctuation.

A next logical step towards total insanity might be  to remove spacing and expression, reducing the text to a line-based grid

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 ______  ______________
 ___________________  _
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However I'd say the real difference between Crumb and Schwitters here is that Schwitters is frisky jumping up and down the continuum whereas Crumb is forever glued to a fixed point.

by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/

glipt 1

down

w/yell

jackson

spill

pouring

c'est

grump

tea time

Roll asemic from MK JCBSN

Dynamics of a Shrinking Universe

• Indexicality
• Point trajectory

When I was working on these I saw this picture of Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely and was also reading paul klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook;  "an active line on a walk, moving freely, without a goal. A walk for a walk's sake. The mobility agent is a point, shifting its position forward" I thought mobility agent was an interesting term because it is like a kind of trick to avoid getting too much into the psychology of the artist. Somewhat similar to what  Niki de Saint Phalle is doing when she shoots at the painting.
 In a way they are both dealing with agency and the boundaries between the artist and the art.
 ( I also got interested in the word  'agency' because it doesn't translate very well in Dutch.)

So in the works above the mobility agent would be the pictureplane.

by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
Marc van Elburg

chise

wur

gold crypt

pilge

frammenti da un'opera in fieri / mariangela guatteri. 2012

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low lowres shots by differx

  

0255 / differx. 2012