You ASCII’ed for it
Posted by michelle on 28 Apr 2007 at 03:08 am | Tagged as: net.art, poetry, possibilities
Seems like the Slovanians are onto something, in the case of a guy named Vuk Cosic and the ASCII Art ensemble, you can watch the opening scene of Psycho or perhaps a poignant scene from the brainy landscape of Eisenstein. These online creations remind me of concrete poetry and text as art or occasionally siphoned of meaning as in Magritte’s hypnogogic endeavors. Catalonian poet and Surrealist, Joan Brossa, left a legacy of visual poetry in various forms such as this:
Another Joan Brossa, I think this one is at his foundation/gallery in Barcelona:
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Way crazy! Very sixties!
~The baby Boomer Queen~
The Divine Comedy