Federico Federici
Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His works have appeared in international journals and anthologies including 3:AM Magazine, Art in America, Diagram, Perspektive, Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Poet Lore, Sand, The Shanghai Literary Review, The Manhattan Review and others. Among his books: “Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook” (2018); “A private notebook of winds” (2019); “Transcripts from demagnetized tapes” (2021); “Biophysique Asémique” (2021); “Profilo Minore” curated by Andrea Cortellessa (2021). His forthcoming book is “Ionic Notebook” (Calamari, 2025).
The Wood as Asemic Device: Topologies of Sound and Script
Ecological question
5 June 2025
The Wood as Asemic Device: Topologies of Sound and Script
Location: 44.252637° N, 8.261132° E; Date: July 10, 2021 writings may exhibit analogous informative sign-borne patterns when ex- posed to noise, readers, or other stresses investigations in the asemic range, illegible to the human brain, have pro- vided reliable evidence in this regard asemic signs are pictures of processes that…
On the Wave Nature of Time – A Thought Experiment
Surrealism
23 February 2025
On the Wave Nature of Time – A Thought Experiment
Time behaves like a wave: past and future interfere in the present, as in Young’s experiment. Closing a slit shifts time’s path, yet both remain linked.
A Zero-Point Writing?
Surrealism
16 September 2024
A Zero-Point Writing?
Asemic writing defies conventional meaning, requiring readers to interpret abstract signs, blurring boundaries between language and visual art.
Vertebrae: a book of abandoned buildings and bodies
Books
14 December 2023
Vertebrae: a book of abandoned buildings and bodies
"Vertebrae" is not just a book; it is a visual and literary journey through industrial remnants and military echoes…
The darkening tree
Short story
12 December 2023
The darkening tree
Quarks and photons / are gross accommodations, / chips of some blown up god / intractable in the mind, / codes, seals, travelling leaves…
Appunti dal passo del lupo
Short story
28 February 2023
Appunti dal passo del lupo
Devo concentrarmi sul bosco e pensare che è fatto di alberi e dietro ogni albero un bosco. Palmo su palmo s’impara a distinguere una corteccia dall’altra, si scoprono le fioriture del muschio, o una punta di gemma. Dentro ogni foglia c’è un albero e dentro ogni albero un bosco: la…
VI.d Ein Meter Seil brennt drei Stunden (rapido precipitando)
Poem
25 February 2020
VI.d Ein Meter Seil brennt drei Stunden (rapido precipitando)
Partivano tutti portandosi dentro i pensieri del mondo, tenevano il conto dei passi tra i denti battendoli in terra. Che colpi ogni metro, che urli e comandi: «serrate le righe!» Marciare compatti trasporta anche i morti e nasconde i feriti.
