Hypergraphics or super-writing, along with hypergraphology, is a discipline invented by Isidore Isou as part of the development of Lettrism - Lettrist hypergraphics consists of the interweaving of signs. The word super has several meanings: // Prefix First known as a prefix, meaning above, beyond, on top, besides, super- has a long history in the English language and has since evolved into a useful adjective and expletive as well. ... Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. ... Self Portrait (1952) Isidore Isou is a poet and founder of Lettrisme. ... Lettrism (also spelled Letterism) was an artistic style pursuing the hyper-minimalist refinement of art to its simplest and purest form. ... Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... Sign can denote any of the following: Look up sign on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

"If one places an abstract composition - which is simply a fragmentary purification of the former object - in (or alongside) a figurative structure, this second composition digests the first one - transformed into a decorative motif - and then the whole work becomes figurative. However if one places a letterist notation on (or beside) a realist "form," it is the first one which assimilates the second to change the whole thing into a work of hypergraphics or super-writing. " Isidore Isou, "The Force Fields of Letterist Painting" , from Les Champs de Force de la Peinture Lettriste (Paris: Avant- Garde, 1964). This article is about the concept of abstraction in general. ... Self Portrait (1952) Isidore Isou is a poet and founder of Lettrisme. ...

After the split in the Lettrist movement, the Lettrist International developed a hypergraphical critique of architecture and urbanism in the form of psychogeography. After the formation of the SI, the group and Asger Jorn in particular, developed forms of "plastic" non-Euclidean and unitary geometry which gave rise to the applied study of situations or topology in the form of situlogy, situgraphy The Lettrist International (LI) was the first breakaway group from Isidore Isous Lettrist Movement (LM). ... Psychogeography is The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, according to the article Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation, in (1958) . // Development Psychogeography was developed by the Lettrist International, as part of their system of unitary urbanism. ... The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International dUnités) is the modern form of the metric system. ... Asger Jorn (March 3, 1914 - May 1, 1973) was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark under the name Oluf Jørgensen. ... Geometry (Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth, metria = measure) arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. ... Topology (Greek topos, place and logos, study) is a branch of mathematics concerned with spatial properties preserved under bicontinuous deformation (stretching without tearing or gluing); these are the topological invariants. ...

After the advent of hypertext, hypergraphics were developed by the Lpa Historification Committee (LHC) at the 1th Conference on the Findations of Psycho-Physics with Oxford University's Philosophy of Physics department, Clarendon Laboratory and CERN. In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ... For the pop group, see Les Horribles Cernettes Construction of the CMS detector for LHC at CERN The Large Hadron Collider (short LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN. It is currently under construction and scheduled to start operation in 2007. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford) is part of the Physics Department at Oxford University. ... CERN logo CERN is the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research ), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ...

Sources

Curtay, Jean-Paul: Letterism and Hypergraphics. The Unknown Avant-Garde 1945 -1985, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1985

Bohn , From Hieroglyphics to Hypergraphics in "Experimental - Visual - Concrete Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s", 1996