Jacket 23 - Marjorie Perloff - The Oulipo Factor
Poetry culture is increasingly indifferent to the role of sound in poetry. Indeed, the free verse, now dominant around the world, has become, with notable exceptions, little more than linear prose, arbitrarily divided into line-lengths. But there are two sites where sound comes once again to the foreground of poetry.
Experimental Fiction / Poetry: Lily Hoang's CHANGING
"Changing", a 2009 Pen America Award Winner, is based on the ancient Chinese uber-text I-Ching or Book of Changes. The book is composed of 64 hexagrams, each one with six stacked horizontal lines. Some lines are composed of just one dash (—) and some are two (--). The unbroken lines are associated with yang, the creative principle, and the broken with yin, the receptive principle.
“Defining” Concrete Poetry
A useful and interesting point about concrete poetry. The author describes "pure" concrete poetry where "the spatial element is essential to the communication, not merely something additional". The visual examples show poems where the spatial elements of the poems contribute to the meaning, and also where they seem to obscure it.
Immanent Terrain: Fluxus Movement as Precursor to Relational Aesthetics
This short article describes the main features of the Fluxus art movement.
Textu(r)al Literature: Timeline of Major Movements in 'Experimental' Literature
This is a rough-sketch chronology of major movements. This list is by no means conclusive. It includes firsts, bests, and influentials.
The avant garde is dead.
In fashion, innovative ideas start in the realm of high art, and reverberate into popular forms. In literature, there's nothing like that going on.
Typographica Exhibition
W+K Exp brought the legendary Typographica -- the first exhibition of the eponymous graphic design journal -- to India. Simultaneously, it also celebrated 50 years of Seminar magazine, a monthly founded by Raj and Romesh Thapar in September 1959.
The exhibition attracted hardcore type-lovers and graphic designers. It also served as a valuable introduction to high-quality graphic design for those who know little about the form.
experiential-experimental-literature
texts that change the parameters of what writers are involved with
Codex Seraphinianus
Written in a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing, the Codex Seraphinianus, by the Italian artist Luigi Serafini, appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world.
Digital Poetics by Loss Pequeño Glazier -- Introduction (Excerpt)
Digital Poetics is an introduction to the making of the new digital poetries. From code to code, whether a Web page in Moscow, a speaking clock in Kentish Town, a computer-generated Buffalo, or a bot hiding in an archive in Melbourne, the making of poetry has established itself on a matrix of new shores. From hypertext through visual/kinetic text to writing in networked and programmable media, there is a tangible feel of arrival in the spelled air. New possibilities stand out as intriguing while technologies that once seemed futuristic now have all the timeliness of World War II bunkers overlooking an unperturbed Pacific. But arrival where? It is argued here that this is not arrival at a place, but at an awareness of the conditions of texts.
Art reviews: A Model of Order: Concrete Poetry/David Austen - Scotsman.com News
In a letter written in 1976 he remarks: "I have been trying to achieve a three-dimensional, large-scale version of Wave-Rock for years… I am promised a cast concrete version for this spring."
designers books
rare & out of print books reviewed by designers
Shadow Bay: Shadow Bay
a full length graphic-hybrid-crime novel told in text by Donald J. Rothschild and art by William T. Ayton. The novel, based on Rothschild's play of the same name, is being serialized on this blog.
Fringe Magazine » The Noun That Verbs Your World
We publish work that is political or experimental in form or content and define both “political” and “experimental” broadly. “Political” can mean work that incorporates or comments on current events or it can mean literature and art that further personal dignity and advocate human rights. We regard “experimental” work as work that breaks with the canon, takes formal risks, or explores a strange or impossible point of view.
The Dissected Manuscript
Fungus amungus on Instructables gives a great tutorial on how to cut up a book so you can rearrange the pages and read it in a whole new way.
