In this book of poetry Cecil Touchon extracts material from the very fabric of the massurreality; texts from spam email. In these poems Touchon gives us a contemplative glimpse into contemporary artistic practice where the artist becomes, much more a connector of things than a creator. Every day trillions of bits of data are transmitted over the Internet. As artists peer into this world of information overload a vast body of incoherent data is brought into view. Much like the subconscious explored by the early Surrealists, Touchon uses this raw material to explore unlikely configurations through the use of found text, the abutment of random, unrelated words and phrases such as the classic example from Lautreamonts Chants de Maldoror: "the unexpected meeting, on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella." This embrace of randomness is central to Touchon's poetic output.

Natural Born Fluxus is that tendency among artists to engage in Fluxus-like behaviors even if they never heard of Fluxus. Or possibly we could say that Fluxus ideas come out of a naturally occurring tendency in all artists that we now think of as Fluxus. It could be that the free wheeling nature of Fluxus allows artists to enjoy their creative, or at least peculiar, tendencies in an unfettered way that other forms of organized artistic activities do not. Includes: Peter Frank, Cecil Touchon, John M. Bennett, Ruud Janssen, Don Boyd, Keith Buchholz, Adam Overton, Sheila E. Murphy, Madawg, Litsa Spathi, Gregory Steel, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Allan Revich, Lorraine Kwan, Matthew Rose, Reid Wood, Luc Fierens, Brad Brace, Mary Campbell, Zachary Scott Lawrence, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Eric KM Clark, Brian R. Nickerson, Walter Cianciusi, Neil Horsky, Roger Stevens, Matt Taggart, Anya E.V. Liftig, Yves Maraux, Roland Halbritter.

Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:

In October 2013 Rosalia and Cecil Touchon spent a month in Paris, France. While there, Touchon collected paper and made 80+ collages in 30 days. Also include are related photographs taken in Paris and asemic writing as well as examples of several paintings made based on this set of collages.

The spam poetry game - now the popular book - was A series of game projects designed by Cecil Touchon to see what poets would do with some of the spam texts found in everyday spam mail and a 48 hour time limit. The games was played on three occasions. One in 2005, Two in 2007 and Three in 2008. Poets include: Carlos M. Luis, Alan Bowman, Schneider/Hill, Hoogan Foogan, Suse, Ray Norman, Camille Martin, Dan Waber, L.J. Zimerman, Nick Piombino, Madawg, Pedro López, Larissa Shmailo, Geof Huth, David Hickman, Bob Marcacci, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jim Piat, Jill Jones, Russ Golata, Robin Reagler, Martha Deed, Bob Rizzo, Roger Stevens, Cathy Horner, Allan Revich, Lanny Quarles, Tricia Barr, Catherine Daly, K.S. Ernst, Mimi Shapiro, Andrew Riley Clark, Kathy Burkett, Douglas Burkett, Douglas Penn, Cecil Touchon, Reed Altemus, Keith Buchholz, Patricia Carragon, Dan Holmes, Donald E. Boyd, Rebecca Cunningham.

This nearly 200 page book is lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty full color collages by Cecil Touchon created between 2004-2009. Touchon is widely recognized as a master of the art of collage. Touchon's work is found in prestigious museum and corporate collections around the world. Touchon is also the founding director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction a wing of the Ontological Museum - his over-arching 'Total Art' project.

The Neoist Society presents this important document of Neoism for a world hungry for a new revolutionary message. This unusual - trans lingual - edition is an abstract manifesto that allows the user to interpret it in any way that he can. Literally any Neoist from any place or any time can understand it's purely visual message.