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Francesco Aprile
Francesco Aprile (Lecce, Italy) is a freelance journalist, poet, visual-poet, and essayist. In 2010 he became a member of the literary movement called New Page-Narrativa that was founded in 2009 by Francesco Saverio Dòdaro; he has worked as a press agent and secretary, editing exhibition and critical works of the authors belonging to this movement. Since march 2013 the core of this movement has been at two voices: F. S. Dòdaro-F. Aprile, but currently he is the director of New Page (since august 2016). In April 2011 he founded the group of artistic research Contrabbando Poetico, subscribing the first manifesto. He is the co-founder of Unconventional Press (2012, with Cristiano Caggiula) and the magazine of experimental languages utsanga.it (2014, with Cristiano Caggiula). He is the author of code poetry/poetic algorithm (since 2010), asemic cinema/asemic film (since february 2016), visual poetries, asemic writing, glitch and literary glitch, asemic-glitch writing, theory about informatic poiesis and informatic punctuation, theory about latency in literature, writing error, and abc asemic book. Since 2016 he is included in ADA-Archive of digital art (Danube University, Krems).
