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The first asemic writing show in MaltaAsemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing which often appears as abstract calligraphy, illegible writing , and/or damaged verbal writing. It is a global post-literature with an unknown quantity of participants and public influence; Tim Gaze (the antipodal father of asemic writing) explains: “most people make asemic writing at some time, possibly when testing a new pen.” Asemic writing is a return to creative basics of points, lines, and textures. Its works run the full spectrum, from being written in the sand with a stick, to digital images using advanced software. What makes asemic writing different from abstract art is gestural constraint, not in the mathematical Oulipo sense, but in a free flowing linear consciousness and play of abstract expressionist calligraphy, digital computer effects, and various writing instruments. To get an abstract and nonspecific point across, asemic writing asks 2 questions: where does writing come from, and where is it going next? This exhibition explores and seeks to answer these questions, with the 60+ artist/writers in this international exhibit. Lines on a page may or may not have meaning, the point is to find out when an asemic piece begins to breathe with signs of life; an asemic writer will instinctively know when this happens and will often rush to post it on the Internet. The Internet has fostered the growth of the asemic writing movement and it is expanding like a brightly colored nebula. This show is a physical representation and snapshot of the asemic movement as it currently exists. All of the works in this show have been taken from the electronic environment of the Internet and made into prints for display on the gallery’s walls. I am into my 7th year curating The New Post-Literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing. I have been fortunate to show the great works of hundreds of talented “drawriters” (a term coined by Marco Giovenale) many of whom are involved with this exhibit. But before there is The New Post-Literate, there was Tim Gaze’s essential Asemic Magazine. And before Asemic Magazine, there is accidental asemic writing in nature and historical calligraphy, both classical and abstract, from all corners of the world. On Facebook there is a very active asemic writing group where many contemporary drawriters showcase their asemic writing, and where many of them were selected for this exhibit.So onward with the show and let’s, as the asemic writing Wikipedia article states, “hover in a state between reading and looking.” Michael JacobsonCurator

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THIS EXHIBITION IS A COLLECTION OF SELECTED WORKS FROM 70 DIFFERENT

AUTHORS, FROM THE FACEBOOK GROUP:

Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate

WITH OVER 8.000 MEMBERS, IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ONLINE COMMUNITIES

FOR THIS SPECIFIC TYPE OF ART.

HERE YOU CAN FIND PRINTS AND ORIGINALS BY:

Karen Coughlin, Riccardo Bre, Christopher Vandegri, Hle & Gkhan Turhan,

Bas en Conus, Tim Gaze, Karen Schi, Neutral Neutral, M. A. Noregna,

Johannes Beilharz, Robert Swereda, Francisco Constan no, Ben Reche, Spencer Selby, Ethan T.

Parcell, SananndaAccia, Gregg Simpson, AnnekeBaeten, AnabelSolari,

Andreas Maria Jacobs, Orchid Tierney, RoopeLaine, Nguyen Van Chung,

Axel Calatayud, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Mauro Csari,

Federico Cas llo, SatuKaikkonen, Sandra Snchez, TeroHannula,

Jesse Sioux Achramowicz, Edward Kulemin, Steve Jones, VeredGersztenkorn,

Lucinda Sherlock, Carl Heyward , Lynda Angelis, Diana Magallon, Gary Shipley,

Patrick Collier, Siggy, Adriana "Addy" Chvez, EleniZouni,Gary Barwin, Kevin Jackson, Willie Mar-

lowe, Je Hansen, Moan Lisa, Louise P. Sloane, Cris Cheek,

Jean-christopheGiaco
Adriana "Addy" Chvez, Algorithmical Battle.
Anabel Solari, Rincon.
Anneke Baeten, And Words Came Falling Out of the Storm.
Axel Calatayud, poem11.
Bastien Conus, 01 Some world pace.
Ben Reche, The secret of mercury.
Carl Heyward, NYC 2010 LIGHT POLE POSTER GRAFFITTI.
Catherine Mehrl Bennett, White Pictoglyphs II.
Christopher Vandegrift, Re-Compression.
Cris Cheek, 4 docks.
Denis Smith, Scan.
Diana Magallon, Pesadilla.
Edward Kulemin, Controversy.
Eleni Zouni, letterforms.
Ethan T Parcell, Short Story In 3 Pages Brown Paper.
Federico Contreras, MUSIQUES.
Francisco Constantino, poema2.
Gary Barwin, Tine.
Gary J Shipley, Untitled.
Gregg Simpson, Micro Morphology.
Hle & Gkhan Turhan, Untitled.
Jacobs Andreas Maria, asemic1.
Jared Scott Cave, unnamed.
Jean-Christophe Giacottino, DIK02.
Jefferson Hansen, These Boots.
Jesse Sioux Achramowicz, jiahu symbols.
Jim Wittenberg, barely recalling the sequence of events.
Johannes Beilharz, Ema.
John M. Bennett, 7 9 2014_20140709_0001.
Karen Coughlin, Lieu Commun.jpg
Karen Schiff, Word Totems.
Kevin Jackson, guidelines.
Ljiljana Bursac, LOGOS archetype.
Louise P. Sloane, GGV.
Lucinda Sherlock, a note from a small journal part II 2014 a.
Lynda Angelis, number 9.
M. A. Noregna, lllllllll.
Marco Giovenale, Asemic Encyclopaedia_p707.
Marilyn R. Rosenberg, 78-1e &1Fs!, 2013-14.
Mauro Csari, An Afternoon in Ganglium City.
Moan Lisa, Portrait #1.
Neutral Neutral, fantasma Sangre.
Nguyen Van Chung, - No.79.jpg
Nicholas Zhu, SOFTER.
Nico Vassilakis, creases ceases.
Orchid Tierney, Untitled.
Patrick Collier, Asemic note.
Peggy Shearn, Document.
Riccardo Brett, Ajhiande (Earth).
Robert Swereda, untitled 10.
Roope Laine, Songs of Chickadees.
Rosaire Appel, BALLAD.
Ross Smirnoff, Tomb of the Overseer of the Treasury.
RossFord, Sept 29-2011 9-04am.
Ryan_Broughman, no translation available 2.
Sanannda Accia, untitled I.
Sandrea Gea, Untitled.
Sandra Sanchez, camino del dia (dailypath).
Satu Kaikkonen, joitakin aseemisia laskelmia 2011.
Spencer Selby, unknown M.jpg
Steve Jones , copper asemic.
Tero Hannula, Untitled 3.
Tim Gaze, untitled.
Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Score for.
Vered Gersztenkorn, Asemic Collage.
Volodymyr Bilyk, 345345345.
Willie Marlowe, Asemic Writing.
Contacts:

Facebook group: Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate

Email of The Spiral: [email protected]

Email of the NGO Archaetypes International Research:

[email protected]

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of each artwork and/or photo displayed (May 2015).