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a list of ways to destroy failed drawings

austinkleon: A list of ways to destroy failed drawings by Tucker Nichols and his students

the author and performer

once the author and performer become separate entities, the work begins to read more like a script than an action—Performing Between Action and Script

Visual Poetry Artists

list of artists on tumblr working with text, who have been featured on visual-poetry before: brandon alvarado gary barwin olfa breuning derek beaulieu marc bijl olaf breuning hart broudy francesca capone ben carrick calvin ross carl aldo chaparro zach collins a. l. crego nathan crothers elle dioguardi dave dyment amanda earl geraint edwards john fekner john fekner peter fend manuela fersen nikita gale bethany goodwill pia habekost don hepster geof huth emma king austin kleon anatol knotek márton koppány natalie lauchlan woody leslie micah lexier daan lievense natalya lobanova wendy macnaughton mark mcevoy kristin mciver misjko troy passey michael pederson jörg piringer pixie pravda alyson provax fatima queiroz tabitha jayne richardson valerie roybal stoph sauter petra schulze-wollgast ines seidel victoria siemer trevor h smith ian stevenson daniel temkin michael tino cecil touchon anton unai zach urbina andré vallias liu yao-chung youdhisthir maharjan via: visual-poetry

‘Great idea: Turning art supply tests into standalone works of art’

via austinkleon: I like these pieces from "Test Me," an exhibit by @chrisormitch (Chris Maddux) on display at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery's Image Lab, the interdisciplinary work space run by @thenearsightedmonkey (Lynda Barry)

David Bowie’s (well used) copy of Oblique Strategies

David Bowie’s (well used) copy of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies. via artistsbooksandmultiples

hang on by anatol knotek homepage tumblr

anatolknotek: »hang on« by anatol knotek [ homepage | tumblr | twitter ]

visual poetry by christian bök

visual-poetry: by christian bök (+)

everything will be taken away by adrian piper

visual-poetry: »everything will be taken away« by adrian piper [at the 2015 venice biennale]

if time is money i have no time by olivia steele

visual-poetry: »if time is money i have no time« by olivia steele

Marginalia Exhibition

If you like to write notes, jokes, or insults into the margins of the books you read, you may be interested to know that you’re part of a centuries-long tradition. With recent commentary by the New York Review of Books, there is a new exhibition at the New York Society Library “explores the practice of reading through the many handwritten notes left in the margins of books”

Announcing Baltimore’s Newest Reading Series

Infinity's Kitchen reading series is a monthly literary event designed to highlight the work of new and interesting writers from Baltimore and beyond. The readings will be held at Sidebar in Baltimore, Maryland. Infinity's Kitchen reading series will also include discussions of the performers and their work, in a format that resembles a late night talk show. There may even be some fun gags thrown in, for good measure. This is not an open-mic event but submissions are open.

The bird of hermes

Visual Poetry Exhibition In Vienna

visual poetry exhibition in vienna a visual and digital poetic view on the globe by 100 artists exhibition | performance | readings | lectures | concert | film

ianbrooks nothing lasts forever by anatol

ianbrooks: Nothing Lasts Forever by Anatol Knotek Hey, even the Mona Lisa's falling apart. Artist: Website (via: My Modern Met)

’new from No Press: TWO FOM UKRAINE'

new from No Press: TWO FOM UKRAINE No Press is proud to announce the publication of a rare opportunity to gain insight in to the range of visual poetry produced in Ukraine. rarely seen in North America, these authors seek dialogue w...

The Sound of Silence

Free Radicals - A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals - A History of Experimental Film (2010) (by REVOIRVIDEO)

Craig Dworkin’s No Medium

Reading the “Nothings that Are”: Craig Dworkin’s “No Medium” Infinity's Kitchen contributor Michael Leong just published a review-essay of Craig Dworkin's No Medium on Hyperallergic.

2 4get her by anatol knotek handmade book 50

»2 4get her« handmade book by anatol knotek »2 4get her« handmade book by anatol knotek »2 4get her« handmade book by anatol knotek »a bra« by anatol knotek »where is all the time that heals?« by anatol knotek »2 4get her« by anatol knotek handmade book, 50 typewriter-poems, limited edition: 250 books,

Ambient, Slowed-Down Theme for Windows 95

Here’s Brian Eno’s famous composition “Windows 95 Startup Sound” (yeah he wrote that), but it has been stretched way out. When you take his micro-music and stretch it out to two and a half minutes, it becomes suspiciously like the music we hear on his ambient albums - slow, ethereal, moody, beautiful in a very different way. So listen to it (this is a Windows 95 ad that an enterprising YouTuber slowed way down).

An Evening of Innovative New Writing!

Infinity's Kitchen magazine will host a release party in Brooklyn, New York at The Old American Can Factory. The party will celebrate the magazine's sixth issue of experimental literature, on the evening of June 13, 2013.

visual poetry so so billboard by anatol

visual-poetry: »so so« billboard by anatol knotek exhibited at the international billboard festival »art moves«

The Supa Stupa Project

The Supa Stupa Project matches bodhisattvaeques with conceptual art lovers. (by Gary Heidt )

Vito Acconci’s 1971 instructions in case he should die in a plane crash

Vito Acconci’s 1971 instructions in case he should die in a plane crash - Boing Boing

No Medium

Dworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry; he compares Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased De Kooning Drawing to the artist Nick Thurston’s erased copy of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature (in which only Thurston’s marginalia were visible); and he scrutinizes the sexual politics of photographic representation and the implications of obscured or obliterated subjects of photographs.

No Medium

In No Medium , Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.

The Personality of Parisian Neighborhoods Expressed Through Typography

via The Personality of Parisian Neighborhoods Expressed Through Typography

A Duet for Leaves and Turntable

All bass, kick and snare sounds heard in the video were made by alternating the leaf type, angle, pressure as it was applied against the turntable.

the following are excerpts from the end of oulipo

The following are excerpts from The End of Oulipo? An Attempt at Exhausting a Movement. Released by Zero Books (via An Attempt at Exhausting a Movement - The New Inquiry)

The Most Commercially Successful Work of Experimental Fiction Ever Written

The Most Commercially Successful Work of Experimental Fiction Ever Written Of course, I'm describing The Lord of the Rings, and, with that description, contending that Tolkien's novel is simply the most popular work of experimental fiction ever written. Need more proof its experimental?

visual poetry by pete spence from the book 10

visual-poetry: by pete spence from the book »10 poems« (free download)

visual poetry screen by noah wardrip fruin

visual-poetry: "screen" by noah wardrip-fruin (via »new poetry forms«)

visual poetry by kim rugg

visual-poetry: by kim rugg

‘Dadadodomax: An App for Word Collages’

Dadadodomax: An App for Word Collages Dadadodomax is an app for making text-collages, or cut-ups, out of the text you feed it. It analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.

neocronica: a novel adhered to a wall

neocronica is a novel written on adhesive text over a wall by Sérgio Tavares Filho. From the author: on the difficulty of knowing the truth behind the computer: one character seeks another who suddenly disappears from their everyday computer-mediated routine. Searching through an ocean of information, his challenge is to find her. I decided to release it on one page only, making it more difficult for the reader to follow the investigation (as it was difficult for the character to dig through all the information). As the character, one must have time and resistance, or then leave the mystery unsolved and go for the next attraction/distraction.

Mark Danielewski is here to answer your questions about The Fifty-Year Sword

Mark Danielewski is here to answer your questions about The Fifty-Year Sword Mark Z. Danielewski is famous for experimental, challenging novels like House of Leaves andOnly Revolutions. Now he's back with The Fifty-Year Sword, a strange novella that was originally released in a tiny print run from a Dutch publisher and is now coming out in a 75,000 copy print run. There's also a snazzy limited edition.

visual poetry film by ernst jandl

visual-poetry: "film" by ernst jandl

A Surrealist for the Digital Age

“i will not make any more boring art” by John Baldessari (1971) have a look at “a brief history of john baldessari” narrated by tom waits:

Me and My Visual Similar Friends

Presumably, Niko Princen began from a self-photo and then generated a set of visually similar images to produce _Me and My Visual Similar Friends .

foodmosh pizza

foodmosh:

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A collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer, and video artist Michael Cole that has been animated, choreographed, and performed by the artists through the use of digital choreographic software. The movement was designed by Bokaer through the use of 3D animation program DanceForms 1.0. This particular work addresses the multiplication of the moving human body, while erasing its presence.

Artist book by Liz Mathews

Artist book by Liz Mathews featuring poetry by Muriel Rukeyeser via poetsorg

Learning to Write Art Criticism

Ever since I met with Physicalism, I’ve been curious about what its like to be an art critic. I decided to try being an art critic first hand. I put together a sample of my writing and submitted it so that I could be considered for the 23rd Annual Critics’ Residency Program at the Maryland Art Place.

Meaning and Experience

A man encounters a work of art. It is a mobile, with steel arms and flat sails that catch the currents in the air, warm and cold. Across and back it turns, arcing slowly through space, like a clockwork of metal clouds. The man says, “That’s not art, that pile of metal parts there. That’s not art. Why, I could have made that!” Right! You could have made that! A human being made that. That’s the point. Then, it’s up to the other humans to come by and see the thing, wonder about it, and maybe make some sense out of it. How is that sense made?

The First Ever Flux-Olympiad at the Tate Modern

In honor of the Olympics this summer, we bring you this amusing tidbit, The Flux-Olympiad. Founding Fluxus artist George Maciunas (1931 "" 1978) conceived the idea of a Flux-Olympiad in the 1960s but this event was never realized until Tate Modern's Turbine Hall housed the first ever Flux-Olympiad, a series of flux-sports events over the three-day arts festival on the 23-26 May, 2008. Artist, sportsman and Fluxus expert Tom Russotti commentated on the Fluxxus Olympiad for the Tate Modern's podcast.

Poetry Reading by Thomas Raine Crowe

Look out! I don't mean the window, I mean the helicopters overhead, the buzz on the phone, and the police at the door. Achtung! The sky is falling from the atoms they have taken from the air. The trees cut to build temples to oil. The brown water no longer fit for fish. Look out! When freedom is just another word for what we have lost. When peace is another brand of bomb. When the national animal is no longer an eagle, but a sheep. I attended a poetry reading this evening by Thomas Rain Crowe , with whom I had the honor of sharing my lunch today earlier today. He’s a real bona-fide beatnik, drinking buddy to the stars: Ginsberg and company themselves. That alone was impressive, I suppose. He shared with us some selections of his fiction and his poetry. He told us about his rock band . and his first volume of translations of the poems of the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz , ( Hafiz )According to his bio: “Following six years as Editor-at-Large for the Asheville Poetry Review, he is currently writing a memoir in the style of Thoreau’s Walden based on four years of self-sufficient living in the wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982. He currently resides in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. His literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina.”