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In your words 3 Replies

What is ascemic writing?What is visual poetry?I have a pen pal who is interested in learning about them after telling her that I read Judith women making visual poetry and it was my favorite art book of 2021.Your responses will be printed and mailed…Continue

Tags: writing, ascemic, poetry, Visual

Started by JAC MAIL. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 2.

Personal shorthand jazz writings with words. 5 Replies

Can ideas like this be included in the asemic type of development?Jazzy script in a kind of shorthand notation?Continue

Started by Bill Newbold. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Feb 7, 2022.

Spontaneous Asemics 18 Replies

I am curious how members view the phenomenon of spontaneous asemics and if they ever experience something like I did this afternoon. I was tidying my workspace and while lifting a pile of paper I detected marks of ink that got stuck to the plastic…Continue

Started by Carien van Hest. Last reply by JCW Maine May 8, 2021.

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper - Start Your Career Today! - Special Discount for Prisoners 164 Replies

The Martha Stuart School of Asemic WallpaperFounder:Martha StuartAdministration:Katerina Nikoltsou, Dean of AsemicsDiane Keys, Minister of Propaganda, Student AmbassadorSnooker the Amazing Mail-art Dog, Dean of MenDavid Stafford, Dean of WomenDe…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by Francis Lammé Dec 9, 2020.

font creator program 2 Replies

Hi I am new here because by chance I saw your question. I have used Fontographer to create my own fonts from drawings and it is easy and free. It will work with W7, I think. You need a painting /graphic program to create tiny drawings of each…Continue

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 24, 2020.

Definition of Asemic Writing - Adapted from Wikipedia 12 Replies

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to…Continue

Started by De Villo Sloan. Last reply by david-baptiste chirot Feb 18, 2019.

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Comment by Jason C. Motsch on October 18, 2015 at 3:41am

Comment by Jan Hodgman on October 16, 2015 at 9:12pm: One sent to Jason awhile back:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/jan-hodgeman2/next?context=user

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on October 16, 2015 at 5:26pm: Amazon is offering the book 'Typewriter Art' 2B released 26 October.

Comment by Bob Jones on October 15, 2015 at 5:17pm: Just discovered that there is a concrete poetry group here at iuoma.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 15, 2015 at 4:01pm: Here is a link to a review of a book on typewriter art (aka concrete poetry) that has some tremendous images. The work is by people who are recognized visual poets now, only going back in time. Asemic symbols are definitely present in the work, although the terms was not used when much of the work was made. In short, it is some amazing, pre-digital work (from the Sackner Archives):

http://hyperallergic.com/242249/looking-back-on-100-years-of-typewr...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 13, 2015 at 9:41pm: Second that. Thanks for sharing here, Grace.

Comment by John M. Bennett on October 13, 2015 at 8:40pm: nice one, Grace!

Comment by Grace Sanford on October 13, 2015 at 7:55pm: "SMOG" (this is my first one of this style)

Comment by John M. Bennett on October 12, 2015 at 1:50pm

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 12, 2015 at 1:36pm: Received asemic writing from Maria Morisot (Iowa, USA). Many thx!

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/asemic-forecast-by-mar...

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