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Tag Archives: poetry

2012-05-27

poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Untitled by Carl Andre

2012-05-25

-300s, -325, 1500s, 1579, ancient, Greece, poetry.

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Axe by Simmias of Rhodes, around 325 BC. Printed in 1579. It commemorates heroes of war and is..

meant to be read in “chiastic” fashion: the first line, then the last line, then the second line, then the second-to-last line, and so on until concluding in the center.

Via.

2012-05-15

1970, 1970s, book, poetry, usa.

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Untitled by Hansjörg Mayer, A Mnemonic Wallpaper Pattern for Souther Two Seaters by Jonathan Williams, Estrangement by Václav Havel and The Golden Message by Mathias Goeritz.

From Concrete Poetry: a World View, 1970. Post updated in 2024.

2012-05-10

1980s, 1985, animation, antiope, brazil, minitel, poetry, videotex.

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Reabracadabra by Eduardo Kac, 1985. Visual poem made for the Brazilian videotex service Videotexto, which was based on Minitel. I wrote about this work for Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology.

A mobile phone version was made in 2003. Post updated in 2024.

2012-05-07

1960s, 1969, 1970s, 1973, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Shape and Structure (1969) and Departure from Merida (1973) by Carl Andre.

2012-05-04

1960s, 1967, dom sylvester houedard, poetry, typewriter, uk.

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Dom Sylvester Houedard’s “typestract the five buddhas” (1967)

2012-04-30

2010s, 2011, book, poetry, usa.

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Moby Dick works by Justin Quinn, 2006-2011. Quinn spent 5 years re-writing full chapters of Moby Dick only using the letter E. Volume I arranges the text like the book, while Volume II, pictured here, shapes the text more freely.

More photos available on his Flickr. (Post updated 2024)

2012-04-28

1970s, 1972, japan, poetry.

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Seiichi Niikuni: “Touch” (1972)

2012-04-26

Czech Republic, poetry, typewriter.

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Typewriter work by Eduard Ovčáček.

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