SCRIPTjr.nlAsemic Texts
- SPAMTEXT
by Mauro Césari and Quimby Melton"Considero la escritura como registro de las potencias de los cuerpos, genitoras de posibles contra los modos seriados de producción de subjetividad que se inscriben sobre ellos y los despotizan." ("I consider writing to be a registry of the power of bodies, generators of potential liberation against the production of serial subjectivity and despotism that fall upon and envelop them.")
- Satu Kaikkonen
by Satu Kaikkonen and Quimby Melton"Asemic texts, as it were, serve as a projection of humanity's desire to reconnect with the mythological root of all languages and, by extension, one another."
- Language Is Hell
by Nico Vassilakis and Quimby Melton"To me, asemic writing facilitates the endless creation of new alphabets. It's the creation of the pre- or post-word, never the word itself, the ascent toward the physical formulation of a word or the disintegration of its parts after achieving 'wordness.' It's the constant rebirthing of new alphabets and the place where alphabets remain drawn and not written."
- VVIISSIIOONNS and Other Selected Work
by Andrew Topel"My art is an exploration of possibilities, an exploration in the beauty of the shapes of the alphabet. It is a way of thinking and viewing that embraces unity rather than division, for the way I see it, writing alone, or art alone, is like walking into a bakery while holding your nose, unable to experience the richness of all five senses working together."
- Selected Work
by Carol Stetser"Lacking duration, outside the oral tradition, without grammatical structure, often asemic, the visual poetry of the 21st century is truly without boundaries or restrictions. It too is global in scope but without any need for language translation. It is experienced all at once, in a flash, intuitively before intellectually."
- Selected Work
by Constantin Xenakis - Selected Work
by Dmitry Babenko - Selected Work
by Ebon Heath - Selected Work
by Fernando Aguiar - Selected Work
by Hassan Massoudy - from Threshold
by Allison Urban and Quimby MeltonJune 2009 art installation at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.
- Dero Abecedarius and Other Selected Work
by Klaus Peter DenckerDero presents the [Statue of Liberty], a sort of public-relations symbol, in several variations. This allows me to explore the theme of freedom -- poetically and theoretically -- as it relates to the somewhat absurd representations of it that abound in consumer culture.