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This article has been published in: Ocula 30, Visuality of writing in arts and visual communication

author: Ludovica Polo (Dipartimento di Culture del progetto, Università IUAV di Venezia, IT)

New verbo-visual explorations. Forms and applications of visual writing in contemporary artefacts

language: italian

abstract: The urgency of communication has characterized verbo-visuality since its origin, driving artists and designers in pursuit of a supra-linguistic system to overcome the written language. With the beginning of the 21st century and digitalization, verbo-visuality has indeed found fertile ground in the concepts of multimedia, design hybridism, and in the visual potential of digital typefaces. This essay aims to explore and highlight the contemporary directions of the word-image dualism, developed both through the use of analog tools — as for some forms of asemic writing — and, mostly, through the applications of new technologies — including e-poetry, variable fonts, and machine learning applied to typography.

citation information: Ludovica Polo, Nuove esplorazioni verbovisive. Forme e applicazioni di scrittura visuale negli artefatti contemporanei, "Ocula", vol.25, n.30, pp.133-148, June 2024. DOI: 10.57576/ocula2024-9

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