Feeling Good
This video, by Tamara Connolly was done for a motion graphics class in the SVA MFA Design program. The assignment was to create a music video using just type and typographic elements in black and white.
Tagged : visual poetry
Vispo in The World
Repugno Selects is a new blogzine for visual poetry / word art / text objects “” as they intervene in the world. Each issue, Repugno the editor, gives us an interesting collection of graffiti, and things like graffiti to enjoy. His criteria: the visual poetry cannot appear on a page. Instead, the art featured ere is printed on brick walls, tacked onto phone booths, and discovered in alleyways. Repugno calls this kind of stuff “Vispo in the World”. (Vispo, of course, is short for “visual poetry”.) The criteria for Repugno Selects also serves as a good definition of what is meant by “Vispo in the World”. Read on. Continue Reading
Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection
Recently, The Avant Writing Collection has published a catalog of visual poetry, Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection. It includes many samples from the collection, along with critical writing.
Three Visual Poems
Michael Basinski, visual poet, has three visual poems published in Anti-.
He has this to say about his work:
“What Why I DIsliek Poetry Distill is it if is it a, a, I, A, become increasing restrictive disease of the as Popeye would sayit the edjumacated, perfuming their big brains as control ovf meaning and mashuremints, with all their Goddamned rults like a government”
Anti- is an online publication “interested in work that blurs boundaries: between verse and prose, traditional and cutting edge, metrical and free, humorous and scary, narrative and lyric and linguistically fragmented.”
A recent post at dbqp mentions this collection of Basinski’s work, in an interesting comparison of visual poetry to illustration.