Here's one option for all the SPAM clogging up our inbox.SPAM poetry is a series of knitted works containing visual poetry created from SPAM. It is a collaboration between Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola who are "interested in bringing together digital culture and traditional handicraft." It was undertaken as an artist-in-residency project at MU in Eindhoven. First they put the word out that they needed people's SPAM, then they converted it into a pattern and uploaded into a tweaked knitting machine. The process illuminates the stark contrast between the rapid pace of the digital world and the slow, careful knitting process. Here...
When in need: Dial-a-Poem
The Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language exhibit at MoMA "brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom"One of the cooler components of the exhibit is Dial-a-Poem; four rotary phones on display that when picked up will treat you to an original recording of a poet reading one of their works. And what if you can't make it to New York in the next few months? You can still partake by calling the local...
Some Visual Stimulus Courtesy of Redfoxpress
Located on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland Redfoxpress is the brainchild of Francis Van Maele. Van Maele, whose previous publishing house Editions Phi was acquired by the Luxembourger Newspaper "Tagablatt", launched Redfoxpress in 2001 to focus solely on the creation and production of artists books. One of the highlights of the press is their "C'est mon Dada" series. "A collection of small hand made artists' books dedicated to experimental, concrete and visual poetry, or any work combining text and image in the spirit of dada or fluxus."West of Dodge by Nico Vassilaki, 2010. USA. Volume 38 in the series....