Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

Fatima Querioz has produced the second issue of an online vispo zine with lots of asemics:

http://poooooemas.blogspot.com/2013/08/aos-colaboradores-do-blog-oo...

Contributors include Fatima, Rosa Gravino, Michael Orr, Cheryl Penn & others.

Blog collaborators include JMB, C. Mehrl Bennett & Marcela Peral.

Many thx to Fatima for organizing this!

kerri pullo rivera!!!! great works

http://issuu.com/trambolhoprojetosvisuais/docs/kerry/1?e=9071015/45...

Hi, De Villo
We make a magazine asemic ... What do you think? It will be a pleasure!

First, welcome to the new members! Feel free to post anything you like. Take a tour of the old threads. You will find some interesting things & you will know doubt learn you are on the asemic writing version of the Titanic.

Hello Fatima, I think it would be a great idea to make an asemic magazine. I will send you a message.

I am also here with the same message as my dear friend Fatima (she shares the link also). Our own Kerri Pullo Rivera - our beloved neighbourhood kid - has been featured by Trambolho Projarte. This is a showcase of Kerri's beautiful asemics. Congrats!

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/trambolho-projarte-fe...

Received asemic vispo from meeah Williams in Brooklyn, NY:

I am at your disposal, De Villo Sloan...Hugs

Thank you!!!!! I greatly appreciate all of the support and sharing of my work!

Congrats, again Kerri.

Will contact you soon, Fatima. Have to see a man abt a horse right now.

concrete-asemics

Welcome Pia Brandt!

For the group in general, Cheryl Penn has recycled some asemics you might recognize into her Encyclopaedia of Everything:

http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/?p=2631

I have just had some new work published online along with some other excellent asemic artists at alteredscale. There are some other new pieces on foffof and i'm an artist man too!

Thx Christopher, great links! alteredscale offers a diverse range of folks working in asemics & vispo, ranging from members of this group to literati - I am surprised to see - such as Nick Piombino, one of the architects of Lango. I'll be checking these out more than once.

Welcome to the group muller jean francois! I hope you share some work.

Via Jim Leftwich, I received a link to a fantastic, free e-book of Otherstream writing, which includes vispo and asemics (see link).

There's an intro by the great vispo theorist Bob Grumman & work by IUOMA members Sheila Murphy, John M. Bennett, and David Chirot as well as many networkers such as Miekal And & Jake Berry. Really great work by David Chirot on the cover!

I am totally thrilled to find there two friends from school days: Mike Basinski & Anne Pluto. Many vispoets know Basinski, but Anne is a fantastic writer too to check out.

Take a gander:

http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/SHADOWS%20OF%20THE%20FUTURE.pdf

Received asemic-vispo from meeah Williams in Brooklym, NY.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/birdwatching-with-anto...

"Composition" mail art to Frieder Speck

Beautiful, Claudia. Thx & welcome!

John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich

Thanks De Villo!!!! Frieder talked to me about you!!!

Rhythm II

Very nice asemic piece, Claudia--great dance-like movement--

Stunning piece, indeed, Claudia! Rhythm - exactly. That is an asemic poem, to me anyway.

Claudia..............adorei!

@Nancy: thanks a lot!!!! I see the dance too!!!!!

@De Vilo: I like you say: "Asemic poem"!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!

@ Fatima: Thanks a lot too!!!!

Fatima: great work!!!! I remember Pollock and I love it!!!

John: Fantastic!!!! That curves seems hand fingers trying to catch a rope

Neonism #9

Love all the recent stuff that's happening here!

Thanks, Claudia

it was originally stains on a concrete floor

john

05.10.13 Dare John M. Bennett, ...& what is the source for those marks on the pavement???  I've noticed somewhat similar squiggles on the Carbondale sidewalks (a la Cy Twombly). Could it be the wheels of those skateboards on the sidewalk???   Huh? Richard Canard 

As to what MADE those stains, I haven't the faintest idea!

"Figures Flight"

nice one, Claudia!

Welcome Carmela!

I received great asemic work from Nancy Bell Scott in Maine, USA:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/asemics-3-scrappers-by...

Thx JMB - we've seen eco-asemics & alien asemics. I don't think we've seen, until now, asemics by animals (maybe). I guess I'll put it in the handy indeterminate category.

Heh - I think that must have been made by a human animal, maybe dragging something across the floor - maybe a mop or piece of weird furniture.  or perhaps a representative of Cthulhu!

Thanks @John!!!!!!

There are a lot of interpretations of the John's photo. It is a very interesting creative exercise

Yes, it is, Claudia. Something very regular, yet splayed. Something bend-able that stretched horizontally? A garden rake made of almost-iron? Great asemics photo.

Website - http://www.artistpaintingonline.com/
Email - artmuller2003@yahoo.com

Hello, my name is Muller Jean Francois. I’am a artist, whose art represents the world. My inspiration for my artwork comes from my dreams, and feelings. Images you can’t see, I can transfer those images in my artwork. My styles of paintings are: abstract, oil, acylic.

Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett

Hello Muller!!!

Great John. I like this work so much. It is great composition.!!!

I did a workshop for the folks at Access Arts a few years ago so I get their news feed.  Thought you all might want to see this!

http://www.accessart.org.uk/asemic-writing-expressive-mark-making-t...

Graffiti in my street, right in fromt of the house where I live

Made some asemic x vispo. Asemic writing is nothing new for me I have been working these glyphs for while and come from writing in Non Roman language. The spray tags looks like sigils, signs used in Chaos Magick.

I can't seem to escape from the crafty style collage. I was told the glyphs resembles Klingon but really based on movement of fire and using them for my fantasy stories and possible RPG.

Do think the so called alien writing is actually asemic writing? I read somewhere this is sort of abstract writing which comes from the subconsciousness.

chimerastone - very interesting asemic glyphs - thank you for sharing.

alien asemics: We had some spirited discussions in the group trying to define asemic writing. Not everything is "Asemically Correct," as there is a very great diversity of work here, which is always welcome & appreciated.

"abstract writing" - yes - "writing lacking semantic content" - yes. You raise a good point about "alien asemics," which someone here once theorized. OK, here is how I see it. If it were a true alien language, it would not be asemic - because it is a code that could be deciphered. BUT much of the alien writing you see in science fiction films & graphic might well be asemic because the illustrator very likely invented images that look like a language but in reality is meaningless (except to signify another civilization on another planet). Know what I mean?

Oh yes - Austin James Wills - the great Texas mail-artist - has done some great sci-fi/alien asemics. I'll have to see if I can find a scan.