Asemic art

‘It looks like writing, but we can’t quite read it’ This comes from www.asemic.net a website about this practise that has potential as an intriguing way of adding …

Palimpsest Asemic Correspondence by Cecil Touchon Ink on antique (1920's) Mexican Geography Journal

Today I gave my poetry workshop an exercise in asemic writing. First time I’ve tried it & they done good. Here’s the exercise, with prelims. (And, at the end, some asemic resources.…

The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader is finally available for purchase at Amazon! Cecil best explains his book here: "The current permutation of The Reader, originally envisioned as a black and white book, expanded in size and breadth to its current full color version to take into account the range of expression in Touchon's asemic explorations spanning forty years of works on paper including images from Touchon's unpublished sketchbooks. The first section of the book primarily contains…

Posts about asemic writing written by Nancy Bell Scott

This weblog explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture

Learn how to do asemic writing and how to incorporate it into mixed media or abstract art.

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nons…

Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics by Scott Helmes is available now around the world at Amazon. Here is Scott's description of his book: "Where does the text go after it’s been read? Pure Asemic writing is the total dissolution of the text, leaving traces of the human hand. These works occupy the space between the initial visual text and the pure asemic result. Initially taken from print magazines, primarily selected for the text and typography forms, these works are visual/concrete states of the…