answering the question [What is visual poetry?] one full-color chapbook at a time
4 May 2010 -
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Belgium + male + vekemans, dirk
Dirk Vekemans was born in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, in 1962.
Taking the internet as his natural habitat, his creative activities cover nearly all media. In 2004 Dirk initiated the Neue Kathedrale des erotische Elends, originally a website at http://www.vilt.net. Everything he does is somehow incorporated within this ‘opera’, a work in plural, indicating its stress on openness, incompletion and multiplicity.
Dirk lives in Kessel-Lo, a suburb of Louvain. There, together with his friends from Grapes of Art and De Bereklauw, each year he organizes the KLEBNIKOV CARNAVAL, an eight day participative Festival of Free Lyricism.
Dirk says: “The Neue Kathedrale actually has turned into a lifelong CR&D program for me: Creative Research and Development. I go wherever it takes me, & i don’t really care to what media the output goes. The running program is what’s important, what comes out is its garbage, manure that may be the starting point of new directions for me and hopefully for others as well. It’s all code, anyway, it all goes up in files.
For this collection i have chosen some works that attempt to break down the artificial barrier between language and the pictorial. There’s a large selection from ‘Islandverse’, reviving the old tradition of emblemata, except that here the words aren’t elevated quotes of wisdom, but verses from Audacia Dangereyes’ poetry consisting of words she ran into and processed in her poetic consciousness. And there’s a lot of letter based works, where the program goes subgranular, deconstructing the petrified clusters of running code that single letters really are.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
30 April 2010 -
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female + Stetser, Carol + USA
These MAD COMIX are inspired by Japanese anime. The words by Mad Magazine cartoonist, Don Martin, have been alphabetically formatted by Vittore Baroni with help from some internet fans. The prints exist solely to entertain. Soundtrack provided. Enjoy!
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of the publications in which some of the prints in this chapbook first appeared: Arte Postale, Franticham’s Assembling Box, Letter Founder, and Offerta Speciale. Thanks also to Jack for the anime.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
30 April 2010 -
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Italy + Maggi, Ruggero + male
His prevalent artistic interests are: visual poetry since 1973; copy art, artist’s books, Mail Art since 1975; laser art 1976; holography 1979; chaotic art based on the theory of Chaos, fractals, entropy since 1985. Underwood site-specific installation GAM Gallarate; curator Camera 312 – promemoria per Pierre at the 52. Biennale Venezia. He has realized at Villa Glisenti and the Silpakorn University’s Art Centre in Bangkok the installation Ecce ovo for an Italian-Thai art meeting dedicated to the problem of global warming. 2009 he has arranged a site-specific installation dedicated to XX years of the Fall of Berlin’s Wall.
www.ruggeromaggi.it
www.camera312.it
camera312@fastwebnet.it
Ruggero says: in English (34k pdf), or, in Italian (35k pdf)
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
29 April 2010 -
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Japan + male + Nakamura, Keiichi
Keiichi Nakamura is a Japanese mail artist. He was born in 1960. He has been making Visual poetry and Mail art since 1994.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
28 April 2010 -
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Helmes, Scott + male + USA
Since 1976, Mr. Helmes has been a leading international figure in experimental poetry. Work has been published in notable magazines, including Poetry, Paris Review, and the Notre Dame Review. As a writer, his work has appeared in Print, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota Monthly, and Whistling Shade, including non-fiction and fiction. As an artist and photographer, he has been included in exhibitions throughout the Upper Midwest. His work is included in museum collections world wide and his writing archive from 1972 to 1997 is in the Avant Writing Collection of The Ohio State Libraries. Mr. Helmes is professionally employed as an architect and lives in St. Paul, MN.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
