Everything at this site seems interesting, much of it fun, Sheila. I
have Nico Vassilakis's last book, & each page is both visually
stimulating & somehow or other 'wordy' in a language not quite there,
much like the itouch Visual Poetry on the site. But in the book, there
are titles, which definitely use words to point to a visual
construction built out of letters in various alphabets. So that the
visual/verbal inextricably mix.
Each artist/'writer' does work that demands individual response
delineating that interaction...?
Your coloured phrases, par exemple....
Doug
On 28-Sep-09, at 9:46 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> Jeffrey, I sincerely hope that asemic work can find its way into your
> article! I say this without any sarcasm. It's a strange thing, how
> attractive the "wordless" visual art in this category can be. There
> is a
> beneath-ment to the gestures. I have devoted considerable focus to
> this
> issue recently, as I find it quite compelling to draw when moments
> allow,
> and to perceive places such as Michael Jacobson's site (The New
> Post-Literate)
>
> http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/
>
> where asemic work is offered in little "mini-festivals" (I call
> them) on the
> web. There is something happening there. No, it is not words,
> but . . . it's
> closely related.
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