Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 3: Tim Gaze

“I have been working with the idea that there's a continuum extending from images to text. Where something sits on this continuum is subjective. One person sees a picture of a house (recognisable image); another sees a bundle of lines (abstract image). One person can read a piece of graffiti (legible writing); another can't (asemic writing). One person sees an unknown species of writing (asemic writing); another sees “spaghetti” (abstract image).” --Tim Gaze, May 2006

« Je travaille avec l'idée qu'il y a un continuum s'étendant des images au texte. Ce qui se pose à tel ou tel endroit du continuum est subjectif. Une personne voit l'image d'une maison (image reconnaissable); une autre voit un paquet de lignes (image abstraite). Une personne peut lire un morceau de graffiti (écriture lisible); une autre ne peut pas (écriture asémique). Une personne voit une espèce inconnue d'écriture (écriture asémique); une autre voit des « spaghettis » (image abstraite). » --Tim Gaze, (version française de Damien Dion, juin 2008, éditée en revue Toth 1 (Orléans, déc. 2008)

BIO:

Tim Gaze is a writer (author of Noology & of 100 Scenes), artist and the editor of Asemic Magazine who lives in South Australia. Influenced by prehistoric rock paintings & ancient forms of writing, he is trying to create futuristic styles of art and writing. His particular interests are symbols, illegible “asemic” writing, and the making, construction and uses of abstract images. He also writes essays about asemic writing. For more, see: http://asemic.net/ or http://www.brokenboulder.com/books/tg2.htm for a pdf book by Gaze. Also check out the new ‘Asemic issue’ of MORIA, a special issue dedicated to asemic writing in which Tim Gaze, Andrew Topel and Nico Vassilakis of the Lex-ICON blog project are published: http://www.moriapoetry.com/i134v141.html. For another cool blog on Asemic writing, you can also visit http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.fr/ an online blogmag published by Michael Jacobson which includes some work by Tim Gaze.

For a formal explanation of this blog project; see:  http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/lex-icon-projet-de-blog-du-20-mars-au.html

INVITATION to contribute!: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/invitation-contribuer-notre-blog-invite.html