Friday, January 9, 2026

Asemic Front 2 Top Ten Faves of 2025

From "decompositions" by Jim Leftwich (2004) 
(AF2 Archive)

1. "The State of Asemia 2025 according to Jim Leftwich" Published @ AF2 January 30, 2025 (Jim's last post on AF2 - prophetic)

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-state-of-asemia-2025-according.html


"untitled" by Rosaire Appel (New York City) (January 2025)
 (Image courtesy of the artist)

2. "AF2 gallery: Recent asemics and vispo by Rosaire Appel (New York City)" (Published @ AF2 February 3, 2025) 

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2025/02/af2-gallery-recent-asemics-visual.html



From WRITTEN IN The Zero One by Hannah Weiner. 
Published by Pete Spence at Post-Neo 
(original 1985) (AF2 Archive)


3. "AF2 commentary: Hannah Weiner at the intersection of asemic writing and poetry." (A re-assessment of WRITTEN IN The Zero One by Hannah Weiner published by Pete Spence at Post-Neo in Australia.)





Collaboration by Sarah Ridgely (USA) and Christian Bok 
(Canada) (June 2025) (Image courtesy of the artists) 


4. "Intermedia collaboration by Sarah Ridgely (USA) and Christian Bok (Canada): Algorithmically generated asemics in 'Fifty Days of Illium' [performed in UK]." Published @ AF2 June 2025.




From PANSEMIC TEXTSTORM by Miekal And (USA) 
(2025) (Image courtesy of the artist)


5. "AI-semics and Human creativity: Selections from PANSEMIC TEXTSTORM by Miekal And (USA)" (Published @ AF2 September 2025)




"Eco-asemics (2) (found forest material)" by Brigitte Tye 
(Seengen, Switzerland) (August 2025) 
(Image courtesy of the artist)

6 "Eco-asemics & other recent asemic art by Brigitte Tye" (Published @ AF2 August 16, 2025)




                               
                               "The high pressure of humanity" by Geof Huth 
                                   (March 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist)

7 "Asemantic (asemic) calligraphy by Geof Huth (North Carolina, USA)" (Published @AF2 March 31, 2025)




Cover of Visual Poetry by John McConnochie 
(Queensland, Australia) (Pete Spence's BlackHill Pres) 
(2025) (AF2 Archive)

8 "AF2 review: Visual Poetry by John McConnochie (Australia) (BlackHill Press)" 
(Published @ AF2 May 22, 2025)



        
"Asemic writing [1]" by Monica Gorgoteanu (Romania)
 (2025) (Image courtesy 0f the artist)

9 "AF2 gallery: Selected asemic writing by Monica Gorgoteanu (Romania) (Published @ AF2 July 3, 2025)




Vispo by Nick Piombino (New York City) (2025)
 (Image courtesy of the artist)

10 'The Spectacle' and other recent vispo by Nick Piombino (New York City) (Published @ AF2 June 29, 2025)