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Dima Ofman: links

Selected bibliography for Dima Ofman, Asemica, and the project's typographic, institutional, and market context.

24 sources · last updated 2026-07-08

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks is the primary platform record for Asemica, listing the collaborative authorship, Curated status, release date, and 980 unique artworks.

Art Blocks collection · 2021

The dedicated Asemica project site gives the clearest account of the algorithm, its typographic parts, and its relationship to asemic writing.

Asemica project archive · 2021

Emily Edelman's project page records the work as a generative typographic algorithm and confirms the 980-output Art Blocks release.

Edelman archive project archive · 2021

Interviews

Cent published a pre-release conversation with Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr about the project.

Cent interview · 2021

Art Blocks' Minters & Makers episode features Andrew Badr, Emily Edelman, and Dima Ofman in a post-release conversation.

Minters & Makers interview · 2022

Expanded.Art's Emily Edelman interview discusses meaning beyond semantic content and includes Asemica as part of the broader symbolic practice.

Expanded.Art interview · 2023

Press and criticism

The Big Bend Sentinel reported on Marfa's digital art galleries and reproduced three Asemica works in the Art Blocks gallery context.

Big Bend Sentinel press · 2022

Treccani's encyclopedia entry provides a concise critical definition of asemic writing as a visual and literary field.

Treccani criticism · reference

The general Asemic writing reference summarizes the movement's open semantic condition and its fusion of text and image.

Asemic writing reference · background

Museums and institutions

Arab Bank Switzerland's collection page for Asemica #401 documents institutional acquisition and describes the project as GenArt.

Arab Bank Switzerland collection · 2021

MoMA's Post essay on Mirtha Dermisache provides art-historical context for illegible writing, books, and the limits of language.

MoMA Post essay · 2018

Arab Bank Switzerland's broader art collection index lists Asemica #401 among its digital artworks.

ABS Collection institutional archive · 2025

Galleries and exhibitions

Sotheby's Illuminated #4 catalogue text links Edelman's later glyph vocabulary to the custom typographic algorithm first developed for Asemica.

Sotheby's auction catalogue · 2025

Fondazione Bonotto's archive indexes material related to visual poetry and asemic writing within a broader avant-garde collection context.

Fondazione Bonotto archive · background

Essays, talks and podcasts

Layout Magazine's essay on asemic writing offers additional literary and visual context for the field.

Layout Magazine essay · 2021

Asemica's compositions page explains the project's article, column, and layout structures.

Asemica compositions project essay · 2021

Auctions and catalogues

OpenSea lists the collection, item count, marketplace data, and Art Blocks provenance for Asemica.

OpenSea marketplace · 2021

NFTPriceFloor tracks the project as an Art Blocks Curated collection with 980 unique Ethereum items.

NFTPriceFloor market data · 2021

Verse's item page for Asemica #246 records token-level traits for one output from the series.

Verse token record · 2021

Profiles and archives

Raster indexes the collaborative profile for Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr.

Raster profile · archive

HUG's Dima Ofman page provides a short public artist profile connecting web development, music, dance, generative art, and languages.

HUG profile · archive

Dima Ofman's Flickr profile preserves a long-running visual archive outside the Art Blocks context.

Flickr profile · archive

Emily Edelman's Mixily case study documents a prior collaborative interface project that credited Dima Ofman as developer.

Mixily project archive · 2021

Video

A public video on asemic writing provides general visual background for the broader practice of unreadable writing.

YouTube video · 2018

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