Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on May 23, 2019 at 8:25pm

Ha ha ha you cracked me up!

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 8:13pm

But to humor everyone in the asemic network, I'll go along with the less than random information flow.

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 8:12pm

And on a different note, I'm going to make the assertion that the only pure asemic writing is really made in the form of truly random information; the stuff you see here and on Facebook or asemic websites is not free of "semantic content," as the Wikipedia article on asemic writing would suggest it must be in order to fall under the definition of asemic writing.

This is what real asemic writing would look like:

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 23, 2019 at 4:00am

And on a different note, the great Richard Canard sent me edible asemics (?) Matzosemics (?). idk but great asemic readymades. thc

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/asemic-readymades-by-r...

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 2:59am

As for listing Renata as a collaborator, you may want to ask her first; she might not like her name being connected to mine any more. I'm using these inputs because I found them in my basement. I haven't been naming her because as far as I know she wants nothing to do with me any longer.

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 2:53am

I have experimented with quite a few different inputs to this algorithm, some turn out very nice looking but the majority of them turn out looking pretty bad. They take two to three days to process on my Intel NUC, they run faster on my laptop but for some reason the algorithm has been crashing a lot on the laptop over the past week and I can't figure out the cause, so for now it's only running on the NUC.

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 2:50am

I'm using some collaborations between myself and Renata that I dug out of the basement at the old house (3814 SW 28th Pl., Des Moines) during the move. The below picture of flowers is a random grab off the internet which gives it the body.

I have around 10-20 pieces by me and Renata that I'll be using as the "style" input to my algorithm for the foreseeable future. I originally made some asemic writing I think with Sharpie on cardstock, then mailed those to Rome, Italy and she gave them fish bodies and embellished them with decorative work. I'm using photos of abstract flowers I find off Google as the "content" input to the algorithm, although I will probably switch to less-recognizable, more abstract content inputs once I run out of flowers I like.

Comment by Mark Rossmiller on May 23, 2019 at 2:44am

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 22, 2019 at 9:16pm

btw - the shawn mc murtagh piece was some metal hooks placed on a scanner bed

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 22, 2019 at 9:14pm

I agree, Jan.

Mark, it would be great if you could identify whose work you're using in this amazing process. I'd like to post some on Asemic Front but wish I could name the collaborators.

For instance, I think I recognize a collab Shawn McMurtagh and I did but you've added even more so it's a new piece.

I think maybe another piece includes fike, jmb, c mehrl - maybe

If you don't want to, ok. But these are really great.

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