Dima Ofman: links
Selected bibliography for Dima Ofman, Asemica, and the project's typographic, institutional, and market context.
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 BlocksThe dedicated Asemica project site gives the clearest account of the algorithm, its typographic parts, and its relationship to asemic writing.
AsemicaEmily Edelman's project page records the work as a generative typographic algorithm and confirms the 980-output Art Blocks release.
Edelman archiveInterviews
Cent published a pre-release conversation with Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr about the project.
CentArt Blocks' Minters & Makers episode features Andrew Badr, Emily Edelman, and Dima Ofman in a post-release conversation.
Minters & MakersExpanded.Art's Emily Edelman interview discusses meaning beyond semantic content and includes Asemica as part of the broader symbolic practice.
Expanded.ArtPress 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 SentinelTreccani's encyclopedia entry provides a concise critical definition of asemic writing as a visual and literary field.
TreccaniThe general Asemic writing reference summarizes the movement's open semantic condition and its fusion of text and image.
Asemic writingMuseums and institutions
Arab Bank Switzerland's collection page for Asemica #401 documents institutional acquisition and describes the project as GenArt.
Arab Bank SwitzerlandMoMA's Post essay on Mirtha Dermisache provides art-historical context for illegible writing, books, and the limits of language.
MoMA PostArab Bank Switzerland's broader art collection index lists Asemica #401 among its digital artworks.
ABS CollectionGalleries and exhibitions
Sotheby's Illuminated #4 catalogue text links Edelman's later glyph vocabulary to the custom typographic algorithm first developed for Asemica.
Sotheby'sFondazione Bonotto's archive indexes material related to visual poetry and asemic writing within a broader avant-garde collection context.
Fondazione BonottoEssays, talks and podcasts
Layout Magazine's essay on asemic writing offers additional literary and visual context for the field.
Layout MagazineAsemica's compositions page explains the project's article, column, and layout structures.
Asemica compositionsAuctions and catalogues
OpenSea lists the collection, item count, marketplace data, and Art Blocks provenance for Asemica.
OpenSeaNFTPriceFloor tracks the project as an Art Blocks Curated collection with 980 unique Ethereum items.
NFTPriceFloorVerse's item page for Asemica #246 records token-level traits for one output from the series.
VerseProfiles and archives
Raster indexes the collaborative profile for Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr.
RasterHUG's Dima Ofman page provides a short public artist profile connecting web development, music, dance, generative art, and languages.
HUGDima Ofman's Flickr profile preserves a long-running visual archive outside the Art Blocks context.
FlickrEmily Edelman's Mixily case study documents a prior collaborative interface project that credited Dima Ofman as developer.
MixilyVideo
A public video on asemic writing provides general visual background for the broader practice of unreadable writing.
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