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Jacques Palumbo

1973

Print (Dot Matrix)

Artist and Computer

Description

This poster, likely produced as an advertisement for the artist’s work, embodies Jacques Palumbo’s early experiments in semiotics, typographic abstraction, and procedural systems. Building on a codebase of numerical, alphabetical, and punctuation marks, Palumbo sought to analyze the linear structure of Western thought and to transform it into tabular arrangements. In this example, he removes the relationship between signs and meaning, emphasizing instead spatial arrangements and sequences. This results in what the artist described as a “form of the content” structurally equivalent to its mode of expression.

Mailed by the artist to the designer Ken Friedman, an early member of Fluxus, the print reflects the artist’s experimental interest in the dissolution of linguistic codes and the abstract ordering of symbolic systems.