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Jeremy Balius is an artist living in Fremantle, Western Australia. A collection of work was published in the 'This is Visual Poetry' series

(http://thisisvisualpoetry.com/?p=1099 ) in 2012.

Jean-Christophe Giacottino


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Jean-Christophe Giacottino was

born in Bordeaux, France the 29th of January 1970.

Currently, he lives and works in Aix-en-Provence.

He is an artist (painter, musician) and social worker

( working with children who suffers from behavioral troubles).

Dion L Charleton


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I'm 56 years old. My compulsive drawing began at age 12. I have little formal training other than a few high school and college courses. Like

everyone around me, I thought no one understood what I was trying to convey with my art work. I went into a 'public exhibition' exile for nearlythirty years. Oh, I never quit working; I just never shared any of them anymore. As time flew on by, all I got was older and slowly grew a more of an

"F" it attitude. Luckily, I've found outlets to show my stuff (Yea, internet!). I have found that I grow more aware of myself (my little Jungian, self

actualization job) by receiving and pondering the commentary of others and what they feel/think about my art. Going on four years after my heart

attack, I can't thank everyone enough! Ascemic art is an avenue everyone can take and no one ever travels it the same way. What could be more

Zen?

Satu Kaikkonen


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Satu Kaikkonen (23.8.1967) is a poet and visual poet from Finland. Her works include tradidional lyrics as well as visual & asemic poetry and sound

poetry. Kaikkonen mainly creates her visual poems digitally, but she also uses concrete objects in her works. Kaikkonen has taken part inexhibitions of visual poetry in the US, UK, Hungary, Russia and Finland, and her works have featured in numerous poetry magazines, both Finnish

and international. Her works are also incluted to the Last Vispo Anthology 1998-2008. Homepage VISUALpOeTrY http://www.kotiposti.net/kaikk

onent/alku_2.html

Nuno De Matos AKA Matox


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Nuno de Matos --Matox

1971 Barreiro--Lisbon

Lives and works between Eus (Pyrnes-Orientales)--France and Lisbon Portugal

Nuno de Matos, aka Matox has grown up at Saint-cr, France, near the alelier of Jean Lurat. He studied at the university of Toulouse. He nowlives in Eus, a famous village in French Catalonia.


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Harkim Chan

Born and raised in Hong Kong; Harkim migrated to U.S. as a teenager to study art and design. At the age of 23, he received a M.F.A. in painting and

printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design.

With the art market crash in the 90s, Harki m's dream of being an artist in New York and chilling with Julian Schnable shattered. He then self

taught himself graphic design and started working for ad agencies and studios. Today, while he works as a corporate monkey, Harkim day dreams

about all kinds of abstract visual landscapes which would eventually manifest themselves into different scopes of fantastic imagery. See them here:

http://www.cargocollective.com/harkim

Harkim calls L.A. his second home after working in Hollywood for 11 years. He now works and lives in Beijing.


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Steve Dalachinsky

Steve dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York right after the last big war andhas managed to survive lots of little wars. His work has appeared extensively in journals


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on & off line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen

Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, The Brooklyn Review,. He

is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is

Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, the Unbearables anthologies: Help Yourself,

The Worse Book I Ever Read and The Big Book of Sex (of which he is a co-editor) and

the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of

many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer, RashiedAli, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His 1999 CD, Incomplete

Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration

with various musicians, has garnered much praise. His chapbooks include Musicology

(Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003),

Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly

Duckling Presse 2005), Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005), Christ Amongst the Fishes

(A book of collages, Oilcan Press 2009), Insomnia Poems (Propaganda Press 2009),

Invasion of the Animal People (Propaganda Press 2010), The Mantis: collected poems forCecil Taylor 1966-2009 (Iniquity Press 2011), Trustfund Babies (Unlikely Stories Press

The Veiled Doorway & St. Lucie (Unarmed Press 20012) and Long Play E.P. (Corrupt

Press, 2012). His book The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook,

Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) won the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award

His most recent books are Logos and Language, a collaboration with pianist Matthew

Shipp (Rogueart Press 2007), Reaching into the Unknown, a collaborative project with

French photographer Jacques Bisceglia, RogueArt 2009). His latest CD is Phenomena

of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005).He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and

Germany. He is a contributing writer to the Brooklyn Rail. His book A Superintendent's

Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) is being reissued by Autonomedia/Unbearables inan expanded/revised edition in late fall 2012. His latest cds are collaborations with

saxophonist Dave Liebman, bassist Joelle Leandre and an experimental French rock

Group the Snobs.

Patricia Bell


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Fine Art B. A. 1972

Post Graduate Studies (Theatre Design) Slade School of Fine Art, London University, 1975-77

M.A. Illustration & Design , 2005.

Worked mostly in theatre arts and Information Technology since leaving University, and started painting in 2004.

Whatever i work on i have a v ision in my head of movements - of body movements to express words and emotions. I'm delighted to find that thes e come together in Asemic Writing, something i'd never heard of until

recently. Thank you for putting a name to my fascination.

Jim Wittenberg


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Jim Wittenberg writes, but for the past eighteen months he has concentrated on writing asemic poetry. He titles each poem, but the titles have

nothing to do with what the readers view. His pieces, whether color or black and white, are smudged and distorted. This is a reflection of Jim'slifelong unconcern for tidy penmanship.

Tim Murray


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Andrew refuses to reveal anything of significance in this bio note

John M. Bennett


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John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials.

Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & PoetsPress), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press),

CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS

ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL

(Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna

Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion

Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich;

Luna Bisonte Prods), BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfox Press), D RAIN

B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)), CHANGDENTS (Offerta Speciale), LENTES (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfoxpress), SPITTING DDREAMS (Blue Lion


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Books), ONDA (with Tom Cassidy; Luna Bisonte Prods), 30 DIALOGOS SONOROS

(with Martn Gubbins; Luna Bisonte Prods), BANGING THE STONE (WITH Jim

Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), FASTER NIH (Luna Bisonte Prods); RREVES (Editions

du Silence); NEOLIPIC (Argotist); LAS CABEZAS MAYAS/MAYA HEADS (Luna

Bisonte Prods); BALAM MALAB (Logan Elm Press); LA VISTA GANCHA (Luna Bisonte

Prods); THE SOCK SACK/UNFINISHED FICTIONS/MORE INSERTS (with Richard

Kostelanetz; Luna Bisonte Prods); T ICK TICK TIC K (Chalked Editions and WhiteSky Books); THIS IS VISUAL POETRY (This is Visual Poetry); EL HUMO LETRADO:

POESA EN ESPAOL (Chalk Editions; 2nd ed. White Sky Books); ZABOD

(Tonerworks); TEXTIS GLOBBOLALICUS (3 vols.; mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press);

NITLATOA (Luna Bisonte Prods); OHIO GRIMES AND MISTED MEANIES (with Ben

Bennett, Bob Marsh, Jack Wright; Edgetone Records); SUMO MI TOSIS (White Sky

Books); CORRESPONDENCE 1979-1983 (with Davi Det Hompson; Luna Bisonte

Prods); THE GNATS WINDOW (Luna Bisonte Prods); DRILLING FOR SUIT MYSTERY

(with Matthew T. Stolte; Luna Bisonte Prods); OBJECT OBJET (with Nicolas Carras;Luna Bisonte Prods); CARAARAC & EL TTULO INVISIBLE (Luna Bisonte Prods);

LIBER X (Luna Bisonte Prods; CUITLACOCHTLI (Xexoxial Editions); and BLOCK

(Luna Bisonte Prods). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art

worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of

LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing

Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called

him the seminal American poet of my generation. His work, publications, and

papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University(St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art,

and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

Matt Margo


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Matt Margo is the author of Two Titles(white sky books, 2011) andBE YR OWN STORY(self-published, 2012), among other semic and asemic

works, all of which are cataloged here. His blog Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriterpublishes works of experimental literature, music, film, and

art. He presented his research paper "What Institutional Collecting Could Do for Asemic Writing" at the 2011 Popular Culture

Association/American Culture Association National Conference.

Rosaire Appel


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Rosaire Appel (NYC) is an ex-writer, graphic artist exploring the betweens of reading/looking/listening. She makes books (commercially printed, hand-made and recycled),

ink drawings and digital drawings. Her subject is, basically, vis ual language. Using a combination of abstract comics and asemic writing, she develop s sequences which remain

open to interpretation thus keeping the relationship between the viewer and the work active rather than passive. Her website is: www.rosaireappel.com.

Jim Leftwich


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Jim Leftwich is a poet and mail artist who lives in Roanoke, Virginia. he is the author of Dirt, Doubt, Sample Example, and Six Months Aint No Sentence. since 2008 he has been involved in

organizing mail art, fluxus, sound poetry, visual poetry and noise events in Roanoke.

Marco Giovenale


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Marco Giovenale lives and works in Rome. Hes editor of gammm.org, puntocritico.eu, bina, Argo, Or, and several websites. An ever-changing draft of his English prose can be

seen at differx.blogspot.com. Hes author of books and ebooks of linear poetry, asemic stuff, photography, experimental prose. Among others, these ones (in English): A

gunless tea (Dusie, 2007), and CDK (Tir aux pigeons, 2009: http://tir-aux-pigeons.blogspot.it/2009/03/cdk-marco-giovenale.html). In 2011 he took part in the Bury Text

Festival (Manchester); see http://otherroom.org/2011/05/22/ marco-giovenale-some-texts. His blog is http://slowforward.wordpress.com. News and infos about his art are

at http://slowforward.wordpress.com/art/ In 2011 he published a chapbook of asemic pieces in the series 'This is Visual Poetry', thanks to Dan Waber.

Christopher Skinner


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Christopher Skinner was born in Sheffield in 1968 and began his career as a graphic designer during the late 1980s. His current artwork is predominantly print-based (relief and intaglio) but

also uses mixed media and digital technologies in his approach to his asemic and artists book pieces. He is still an active graphic designer, completing an MA in Design Practice in 2005

(University of Northumbria) and continues to teach design and typography.

He has exhibited in several Book Arts exhibitions in the UK and gave live print demonstrations at the inaugural Leeds Print Festival in 2012. He lives and works in Norfolk, England.

www.lestaret.wordpress .com

Cheryl Penn


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Cheryl Penn (South Africa) is a process based art practitioner who uses the mediums of collaboration, As emics and Visual Poetry to express her own personal visual

language.

Donna Maria De Creeft


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Ms. de Creeft is a native New Yorker. As a mixed-media artist, her work has

been shown nationally and internationally. Some of her venues include The

Barcelona Book Fair, Central Booking, and Proteus G owanus in Brooklyn, NY,

Jersey City University, Moravian College, West Virginia Wesleyan College and

PS 1 Museum. Ms. de Creefts work is in the permanent collections of the

University of Southern Maine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, The Center

for Book Arts, and the library collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Bryn Mawr

College and Rutgers University.

Website: dmdecreeft.com


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Jas W Felter

Jas W Felter was born in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in

New York State in 1943. He created his first mail art in 1957 and

presented his first solo exhibition of oil paintings in 1961. Felter

graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1964 (BA,Fine Arts - Painting). Jas spent the following two years in Ecuador


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with the First Latin American Regional Arts and Crafts Program in the

US Peace Corps. Upon returning to North America he attended the

University of Washington in Seattle for post-graduate work in painting

and the graphic arts, as well as Anthropology and Archaeology. In the

Spring of 1968 he moved to Vancouver and in January of 1969 began a 16

year stint at Simon Fraser University where he taught visual

communication, founded the Simon Fraser Art Gallery and establishedthe University's collection of contemporary art. Since his departure

from Simon Fraser in 1985 Jas has continued to pursue his activities

in the visual arts, both in curatorial work and in art production of

paintings, collages and digital prints. In 1995 he launched his

'homepage' on the internet as the Jas Cyberspace Museum (JCM). which

is now one of the oldest and largest personal web site on the world

wide web. In 1998 JCM was invited to present an exhibition of works

in its collection at ART-MANAGE '98 in Moscow.

Jeff Crouch


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Jeff Crouch is an internet artist. His Nothing and Insight blog is here: http://nothingandinsight.blogspot.com/ .

Stephen Vincent

Stephen Vincent is a poet and artist with a professional career in directing publishing companies with a focus on poetry and fine arts books. His most recent poetry books include After

Language: Letters to Jack Spicer (BlazeVox, 2012), Walking (Junction Press, 1996), Walking Theory(Junction Press, 2006), and the ebooks Sleeping With Sappho(faux ebooks, 2003) andTriggers(Shearsman, 2004). From 1972 to 1981, he was the publisher of Momos Press books, which first introduced the work of such poets and writers as Ntozake Shange, Victor Hernandez

Cruz, Hilton Obenzinger, Beverly Dahlen, and Jessica Hagedorn. In the eighties, he was the director of Bedford Arts, Publishers, which became internationally recognized for the publication of

books featuring the works of Masahisa Fukase, David Park, Roy DeForest, Miriam Schapiro, Mark Klett, and Christo, among others.

Throughout his poetry career, Vincent has occasionally taught Creative Writing at schools that have included the University of Nigeria, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art

Institute. In the City he is also well known for leading independent Walking & Writing workshops. Since 2007,when he began to make art work, his drawings have been featured in gallery

shows at the Braunstein Quay Gallery (San Francisco), 2009; Steven Wolf Fine Arts Gallery (San Francisco), 2009; and Jack Hanley Gallery (New York), 2011. The work has been subject to

two books, The First 100 Days of Obama(Steven Wolf Fine Arts Gallery, 2009) and Haptics: The Novel(Xeroxical Editions, 201113). Stephen Vincent resides in San Francisco.

Cecelia Chapman


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Cecelia Chapman is an artist working in film, writing and visual art. ceceliachapman.com

Yorda Yuan


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I'm from China. I am studying in London at the moment for an MFA in fine art . My works focus on the research of asemic writing and abstract calligraphy, also abstract narrative, since I'm awriter as well as a visual artist. Some of my works are in the practice of strokes of Chinese calligraphy (some you can find in my album on Facebook ), with different forms, combined withcontemporary abstract painting.

Volodymyr Bilyk/


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Volodymyr Bilyk wa s born in the Uk raine and has a degree in journalism . He is considere d to be one of the few representatives of the so-called Ukrainia n Extreme Literature. Bes ides being a

writer, he is a lso a visu al artist, sou nd producer, video artist, an d a collector of f ilms. He is a co-editor of the Extreme W riting Commu nity.

Oliver Loveday


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Sumi Ink Painting involves the use of an ink cake (or solid ink) that is dissolved into a liquid form by grinding it against an ink stone with water. The painting is created on rice paper. Ricepaper is very porous so the technique of painting on rice paper requires that the brush be in motion as it comes in contact with the paper and flow in a rapid manner. This technique providesvisual effects that can't be created in any other media. I found it to be very satisfying as I developed as an artist interested in "first thought - correct thought" as expressed through ZenBuddhism. My approach was based on the idea that all of life is a dance (or form of energy) and Sumi ink painting allowed me to "dance with complete freedom from all distractingthoughts" as there is no time to think once the brush is in motion and making contact wi th the paper. The slightest hesitat ion causes the brush to pause and the rice paper will immedia telystart to soak up the i nk from the brush, resulting in a large black glob of ink. Now we are dancing in freedom. Yes!!

Tim Gaze


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Tim Gaze is an activist for the spread of illegible writing. His longer works include the abstract graphic novel100 Scenes(e-book: Transgressor / paperback: asemic editions) & the glitchpoetry book noology(Arrum Press). He has some work in theThe Last Vispoanthology (Fantagraphics) & occasionally publishes asemicmagazine, which he founded in 1999 or so. Hebelieves there has to be a better way to communicate with his Terran brothers & sisters than the English language.

Gary J Shipley


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Gary J Shipley is a writer from the UK. His artbook, SHROUDS, is forthcoming fromasemic editions. More information can be found here.

Dr. Heidi Heft LaPorte


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Heidi Heft LaPorte, DSW. Prior to her work developing the Tuska Institute, Dr. LaPorte spent four years as an Associate Profes sor of Social Work at the City University of New York, Lehman College in the Bronx; where she taught social polic y, human behavior in

the Social Environment , Field Work Seminar and Research Methods in the Bachelor's and Master's pr ogram. Prior to that, she was an Associ ate Professor of Soci al Work at the Wurzweiler Sc hool of Social Work, Yeshiva University, in Washington Heights NY,

where she taught Program Evaluation Res earch, Single Syste m Design and Qualitative and Quantitative Rese arch Methods in both the Ph.D and Master of Social Work programs . In addition, Dr. LaPorte also taught Research Methods in Social Work Pract ice

and Program Evaluation Research Methods at New York University School of Social Work and Fordham University School of Social Work in the MSW programs as an adjunct Professor.

Dr. LaPorte is currently working wit h Seth Tuska, son of the well known artist John Regis Tuska, to create the Tuska Institute to promote healing and wellness through artistic expres sion. This vision is seeks to bring artists and health and mental health

professi onals together, specifically drawing from five disciplines w ithin the arts: Music, Danc e, Dramatic Arts, Writ ing and the Visual Arts. This is envisioned as five fingers of a hand reaching out into the community.

Michael Jacobson

Michael Jacobson is a writer and artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. His books i ncludeThe Giants Fence,Action Figures, Mynd Eraser, and The Paranoia Machine. Besides writing books,he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. He is also on the editorial board ofSCRIPTjr.nl . In his spare time, he is working on designing a planet named THAT.Recently, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics), and was interviewed bySampleKanon


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