aggiornamento alla ‘carta d’identità in link’

per una ricostruzione (sempre in fieri) dell’attività degli spazi
blogspot di materiali sperimentali – specie a partire dal 2005

ho appena aggiornato la “carta d’identità in link” con gli indirizzi tutt’ora attivi dei vari blog che su blogspot, a partire soprattutto dal 2005 (ma in alcuni casi anche da prima, pur se su altre piattaforme), ho inventato o semplicemente contribuito a strutturare e far vivere – e che hanno visto insieme a me un gruppo folto di autrici e autori pubblicare [o essere ospitati con] materiali asemici, verbovisivi, glitch, scritture sperimentali, video, audio, immagini e centinaia anzi migliaia di altre strane robe. (chiaramente quelli non citati in calce si trovano nella carta a cui accennavo).
ricordo qui solo alcuni nomi di collaboratori, ospiti, amici, redattori: Bill Allegrezza, Reed Altemus, Daniele Bellomi, Cara Benson, Gherardo Bortolotti, Anne Boyer, Alessandro Broggi, Roberto Cavallera, Riccardo Cavallo, Cecelia Chapman, David-Baptiste Chirot, Crashtest, Jeff Crouch (che devo soprattutto ringraziare per il grande lavoro di ristrutturazione/hosting di molti blog, dal 2015 in poi), Rachel Defay-Liautard, Alessandro De Francesco, Michelle Detorie, Bill DiMichele, Linh Dinh, Greg Evason, Raymond Farr, Peter Ganick, Susana Gardner, Tim Gaze, Angela Genusa, K. Lorraine Graham, Mariangela Guatteri, Patrick Gulke, Carrie Hunter, Andrea Inglese, Michael Jacobson, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Karri Kokko, Drew Kunz, Jim Leftwich, Jon Leon, Antonio Loreto, Michele Marinelli, Giulio Marzaioli, Manuel Micaletto, Sheila Murphy, Yu Nan, Ross Priddle, Lanny Quarles, Carmen Racovitza, Andrea Raos, Giorgia Romagnoli, Joe Ross, Eric K. Zepka _ E-doppelganger, Massimo Sannelli, Jennifer Scappettone, Ed Schenk, Spencer Selby, Matina L. Stamatakis, Harry K. Stammer, Miron Tee, Ton van ‘t Hof, Cecil Touchon, Lubomyr Tymkiv, Dirk Vekemans, Luca Venitucci, Elisabeth Workman, Michele Zaffarano, Luca Zanini.

Gli spazi:

blog di materiali asemici su blogspot:
https://asemicnet.blogspot.com || https://asemic-net.blogspot.com

blog di materiali sperimentali, testuali e verbovisivi, su blogspot:
https://nothingandinsight.blogspot.com || https://exp–net.blogspot.com || https://eexxiitt.blogspot.com || https://eeexxxiiittt.blogspot.com || https://the-flux-i-share.blogspot.com || https://transcriptionesredux.blogspot.com || https://wee-image.blogspot.com || https://ex-ix-tere.blogspot.com

archivi su blogspot:
vispostock (2006-2007) https://vispostock.blogspot.com/
installance (2010-2015) https://installance.blogspot.com/

du-champ
[events from the field of the avant- / événements du champ de l’avant- / eventi dal campo dell’avan-]
(dal 2010 il maggior aggregatore di spazi sperimentali in rete):
https://du-champ.blogspot.com/

#achelDefayLiautard #AlessandroBroggi #AlessandroDeFrancesco #AndreaInglese #AndreaRaos #AngelaGenusa #AnneBoyer #AntonioLoreto #asemicNet #asemicnet #BillAllegrezza #BillDiMichele #blog #blogger #blogs #blogspot #CaraBenson #CarmenRacovitza #CarrieHunter #CeceliaChapman #CecilTouchon #Crashtest #dal2015InPoi #DanieleBellomi #DavidBaptisteChirot #DirkVekemans #DrewKunz #duChamp #EdSchenk #eexxiitt #ElephantZebra #ElisabethWorkman #EricKZepkaEDoppelganger #exIxTere #exixtere #expNet #expnet #GherardoBortolotti #GiorgiaRomagnoli #GiulioMarzaioli #GregEvason #harryKStammer #installance #JeffCrouch #JenniferScappettone #JimLeftwich #JoeRoss #JonLeon #jukkaPekkaKervinen #KLorraineGraham #KarriKokko #LannyQuarles #LinhDinh #LubomyrTymkiv #LucaVenitucci #LucaZanini #ManuelMicaletto #MariangelaGuatteri #MassimoSannelli #MatinaLStamatakis #MichaelJacobson #MicheleMarinelli #MicheleZaffarano #MichelleDetorie #MironTee #NothingAndInsight #PatrickGulke #PeterGanick #RachelDefayLiautard #RaymondFarr #ReedAltemus #RiccardoCavallo #ricostruzione #RobertoCavallera #RossPriddle #SheilaMurphy #SpencerSelby #storia #storiaDeiBlog #StoriaDellaRete #storiografia #SusanaGardner #TheFluxIShare #timGaze #TonVanTHof #transcriptiones #vispostock #weeImage #YuNan

a little bit more than a month

a month flew by.

remembering #JimLeftwich

slowforward.net/2025/02/23/we-…

a month flew by.

remembering #JimLeftwich

https://slowforward.net/2025/02/23/we-all-miss-you-jim/

an autobiographical text by jim leftwich (shared online by john m. bennett)

Here’s an excerpt from Jim Leftwich’s autbiographical afterword to his latest book, PIT SWAN & ORBATE WRITING

Remember What You Can

 
Jim Leftwich

 
In the fourth grade I was given an aptitude test which determined (among many other things, I would assume) that I had absolutely no aptitude for music. That’s the only thing I remember being told about the test. That would have been 1966 or 67. It was beginning in those days to sound — and look — like music might be a significant alternative to the war in Vietnam. The counterculture was saying no to the draft, and rock n roll music was spreading that message to all corners of the country. Music was beginning to tell young males like myself that another world was possible. It wasn’t the job of a fourth grade teacher in Amherst County, Virginia to encourage that way of thinking.
I went away to college, dropped out after four years, and went off rambling around the country. Every now and then I would drop in on my parents. My mother would be at the dining room table, listening to the radio. We would drink a few beers, tell each other some stories. She said, you are volatile, do you know that? I said no, not really. Yeah, sure. I guess I know. Maybe it was only a matter of the multitudes of selves. Some of which were surprises. She said, Please Come to Boston, do you know that song? It reminds me of you. I said, I don’t know. Maybe. It was the seventies. In matters both personal and political, I had no idea of what was coming. She said, Against the Wind, too, reminds me of you. I said, well. Ok. If you think so.
The eighties was a poisonous decade, acid rain falling on a nuclear time bomb, death squads funded by designer drugs. Killing us again and again. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends.
It’s New Year’s Eve now, 2024. Sue and I are camped beside the Colorado River, on the Arizona / California border. I’m not sure I would have made it through the eighties if Sue and I hadn’t met.
There isn’t much wind here, just enough for us to notice it, barely moving through the mesquite trees. There is always everything to be new, and nothing to ever be anywhere other than the present.
I’m a little worried about the coming year. I’ve been worried about the coming year for as long as I can remember.

#autobiographicalNote #JimLeftwich #JohnMBennett #note

asemics: jim, again

the birth (in the English language) and the broad diffusion and success of the term “asemic” and the practice of asemic writing owe a lot to the relentless activity of the artist and poet and verbo-visual writer Jim Leftwich.
he passed away but will NEVER be forgotten.

la (ri)nascita (in lingua inglese) e l’ampia diffusione e successo del termine “asemic” e della pratica della scrittura asemica devono molto all’instancabile attività dell’artista, poeta e autore verbovisivo Jim Leftwich.
è scomparso ma non verrà MAI dimenticato.

https://scriptjr.nl/four-questions-about-asemic-writing-05-jim-leftwich/

https://scriptjr.nl/asemic-pansemic-m-g-plus-why-we-continue-using-the-term-asemic-writing-even-though-there-is-no-such-thing-j-l/

https://scriptjr.nl/ongoing-notes-on-asemic-writing-jim-leftwich-2015/

https://jimleftwichongoingresearch.blogspot.com/2023/04/asemic-writing-definitions-contexts.html?m=1

#asemic #asemicWriting #asemics #JimLeftwich #scomparsa #scritturaAsemica #teoria

jim leftwich passed away

the bad news make me absolutely astonished, sad. my/our friend Jim Leftwich passed away. he had an heart attack. I’m still speechless and in shock.

as soon as I read the news, my first reaction was disbelief. but it was soon confirmed.

for more than twenty years Jim has been a great interlocutor for me, an inexhaustible source of critical dialogue, on experimental writing and verbo-visual art, but also on all the political questions that experimentation entails.

Jim was also a slowforward editor, a tireless promoter of other people’s work, writings, and connections. not to mention his primary role in the spreading of the practice of asemic writing.

I miss him so much.

this passing, with the passing of Peter Ganick, is a truly major loss for the literary community as a whole, and for me as a friend. I never met him in person, despite the thousand messages we exchanged, and I’ll never meet him anymore.

#art #death #experimentalWriting #JimLeftwich #loss #majorLoss #passingAway