Quasi~Library

A temporary reading space and a satellite exhibition of books and other printed material, Quasi~Library is presented in continuity with the exhibition Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems (On display at the HMCT Gallery). On display are rare and special materials from the Designing Writing collection and the ArtCenter Library main and special collections centered around the themes of invented and fictional scripts, asemic writing, and the speculative possibilities of writing and language beyond mere functionality. On view from April 14–April 22, 2024 at ArtCenter College of Design.

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1. Dazibaos
2. L’Afrique et la lettre
3. Diario #1
4. Coral Dictionary
5. Emigre No. 18
6. Rules of Hypergraphy
7. Blissymbolics: Speaking Without Speech
8. Moderne Jazz
9. La belle au bois dormant
10. Schrift und Bild (Art and Writing)
11. Grafische Reduktionen (Rot 29)
12. Omega 3
13. Kadath: Spécial Nazca
14. Zeitung
15. Danses tracées
16. La escritura en la libertad
17. Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings
18. L’apocalypse arabe
19. Asemic Writing: Poetic Structures
20. Mother of Writing
21. Tecken
22. OEI #66 Process/Poem
23. Spartito Preso
24. Écrire c’est dessiner (d’après une idée d’Etel Adnan)
25. Danse, précis de liberté
26. Com.Mix
27. La méthodologie de la nouvelle écriture africaine «bété»
28. Everybody’s Pixillated
29. Gaffe au golf
30. Manfred Mohr: Computer Graphics
31. Les dessins bamum
32. Thomas More, Utopia in Utopia
33. Écriture en délire
34. Scrittura attiva
35. Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems
in African Art
36. Pictograms
37. Contemplazioni
38. The Language of the Goddess
39. Microscripts
40. Fukt Magazine No.17, The Words Issue:
Written Drawings
41. A Cookbook of Invisible Writing
42. Secret Messages
43. Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs
44. Walls, Diaries and Painting
45. Leporellos
46. Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground
47. Book from the Ground
48. Susan Hiller: Recall
49. Hanne Darboven: Writing Time
50. Eigenschaften
51. Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language
52. The First Writing: Script Invention as History
and Process
53. The Cherokee Syllabary
54. Devi (Vinyl Record)
55. Rachid Koraichi
56. History of Hangeul
57. Pictographs
58. Lenguas raras, lenguas muertas. Tierras muertas,
lenguas raras. Muertas raras, lenguas tierras.
59. Analyzing Children’s Art
60. The Secret Book of Lichens