New work on Slowforward

Meanwhile, I've got a new piece posted on Slowforward and its a doozy made in-between blackouts. Slick minimalist thingie.

Link - https://slowforward.net/2022/11/13/cant-do-much-when-ruskies-bomb-your-electric-grid-volodymyr-bilyk/ 

Can you recommend any good books about surrealism?

People asks me about stuff all the time. Here's one of the recent one. 

I’ve got a couple of faves:

• David Hopkins - Dada and Surrealism: A very short introduction. It’s the fundamental book with everything you need to know about the subjects. It doesn’t go into detail on some more deep cut stuff but covers all the basics.
• Patrick Lepetit - The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism. This one tackles the subject from a completely different point of view. If you dig mysticism and magick - that’s your jam. It breaks down a lot of stuff regarding automatism and subconsciousness exploration and puts it into context.
• Peter Stockwell - The Language of Surrealism. This book is about literature and language experimentation in different surrealist works. It is hardcore science book so it is a tough read but it is very insightful.
• Ruth Brandon - Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945. If you’re looking for an insightful book that is also a well-written piece of literature - that’s your book. It covers all the usual suspects and puts them into context.
• The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game. This book is a collection of essays on the exquisite corpse game. Provides multiple perspective on the subjects and tackles several different applications of the concept.
• Susan Laxton - Surrealism at Play. This one is about how things are done, how it is different from other artistic practices, how surrealist vision of artistic process evolve and what’s its legacy.

Why is the infinite monkey theorem usually depicted with chimps when chimps aren't monkeys?

Here's something to think about. 

My take: most people are stupid and lazy and can’t tell the difference. 

On the other hand, it doesn’t really matter all that much and you can call the theorem “infinite primates who are not as advanced in communication as humans theorem”. 

But it is too long and “monkeys” get to the point just fine despite persistent visual inaccuracy.

New works in Utsanga.it

Great news! Several of my pseudo-calligraphic collage works have been published in the Italian experimental literature journal Utsanga.

I want to thank Francesco Aprile for posting these works.

THE LINK: https://www.utsanga.it/bilyk-six-scribbles/

This series of works uses elements of drawings by the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzezka. I took out individual elements of scanned drawings and made new compositions from them in a different style - some kind of primitivist scribbles thus the title.

New Work in The New Post-Literate

Great news! Several of my pseudo-calligraphic works have been published on the asemic writing blog The New Post-Literate.

Many thanks to Michael Jacobson for making it happen. 

THE LINK: https://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-semiworkable-font-which-is-glitchy-as.html

New work at COMPOSTXT

Great news! Some of my new typographic work has been posted on COMPOSTXT blog. Many thanks to Roberto Cavallera for making it happen.

THE LINK: https://compostxt.blogspot.com/2022/07/volodymyr-bilyk.html

These pieces were made with heavily distorted block font. The text was scrambled and then fuzzed out with intersymbol distance jammed

New works at Global Multimedia Poetry Stands

Great news! A selection of my visual works are currently exhibited at Global Multimedia Poetry Stands tower at Praça do Sertório in Évora, Portugal. 2022 edition also features 65 artists from 24 countries.

The tower will be installed until the 2nd of September.

It is the third time I'm taking a part in this project and it always was a pleasant experience for me. Well, I wasn't personally present there, but my works were place right in the face of the visitors, so I count it as a win. Kidding.

Here's the poster: