Signal, International Review of Signalist Research

Magazine Signal with the subtitle "International Review of Signalist Research" was the periodical of Signalism, international avant-garde creative movement. The magazine was founded in 1970 in Belgrade.^[1] Founder and editor-in-chief was Miroljub Todorović.

The movement was significantly boosted by the magazine, publishing multilingual works of neo avant-garde poets, fiction writers, essayists and visual artists from Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia.

Nine issues of Signal appeared between 1970 and 1973,^[2] presenting a number of domestic and international artists, as well as printing bibliographical data about the avant-garde publications all around the world. From 1973 until 1995 magazine could not be published, mainly for financial reasons.

From 1995 to 2004 another 21 issues of Signal appeared.^[3] The new release of Signal revitalized the Signalist movement and brought numerous young artists into the movement in 21st century.

Notable international contributors

• Raoul Hausmann, dadaist, the founder of Berlin Dada in 1918.
• Augusto de Campos, one of the initiators of the concrete poetry.
• Michele Perfetti, mail-artist, critic and theoretician of neo-avant-garde.
• Adriano Spatola, Italian poet, editor of the experimental poetry magazine "Tam Tam".
• Clemente Padin, visual poet and theoretician, editor of the neo-avant-garde magazine "Ovum 10" in Uruguay
• Julien Blaine, visual poet, performer, mail and conceptual artist. The editor of the eminent neo-avant-garde magazines "Doc(k)s"
• Sarenco, visual poet, performer, anthologist, founder and editor of the Italian neo-avant-garde magazine "Lotta Poetica"
• Eugenio Miccini, one of the most prominent Italian visual poets and theoretician of neo-avant-garde
• Richard Kostelanetz, visual poet, theoretician of neo-avant-garde, anthologist, editor of the "Assembling"
• Guillermo Deisler, Chilean visual poet, critic and anthologist
• Bob Cobbing, English concrete poet and theoretician of sound poetry
• Eugen Gomringer, concrete poet and theoretician, one of the founders of concrete poetry
• Pierre Garnier, concrete poet and theoretician, founder of French spatialism, the spatial poetry
• Enzo Minarelli, main representative of the Italian "poesia visiva" -- the visible poetry
• Keiichi Nakamura, Japanese visual and mail-artist.^[4]
• Dick Higgins, visual poet and theoretician of neo-avant-garde, editor of the publishing company "Something Else Press"
• Dmitry Bulatov, Russian visual poet, theoretician and anthologist
• Sol LeWitt, prominent American conceptualist
• Shozo Shimamoto, a member of the famous Japanese neo-avant-garde group "Gutai"
• Dr. Klaus Peter Dencker, visual poet and theoretician who put together one of the cult anthologies of visual poetry "Text-Bilder"
• Ruggero Maggi, Italian visual poet, painter and mail-artist
• Daniel Daligand, French visual poet, mail-artist and critic
• Willi R. Melnikov, Russian visual poet, mail-artist and performer
• Kum-Nam Baik, South Korean mail-artist
• On Kawara, American conceptual artist
• Klaus Groh, neo-dadaist, the founder of the neo-dadaist center in Germany and author of numerous anthologies and collections of visual poetry, mail-art and conceptual art.

References

Literature

• Todorović Miroljub, „Povodom prvog broja Internacionalne revije Signal“, in: Planetarna kultura, Belgrade, 1995, pp. 69-71.
• Živković Živan, „Časopis Signal“, in: Signalizam – geneza, poetika i umetnička praksa, Paraćin, 1994, pp. 25-30.
• Pavlović Milivoje, „Novi sjaj Signala“, Politika, 4. oktobar 1997, str. 28.
• P. M. „Priznanje srpskom Signalu“ (Beogradski internacionalni časopis dobio nagradu na međunarodnoj književnoj smotri kao najbolja revija u 1998. za intermedijalna književno-umetnička istraživanja), Politika, 18. 3. 1999, p. 15.
• Tišma Andrej, „Ratni dvobroj Signala“, Dnevnik, Novi Sad, 7. 7. 1999, pp. 13

External links

• Signal - international review for signalist research, No 1, Belgrade, 1970. (full facsimile of the first issue)
• Signal, No 4-5, 1971. (full facsimile)
• Signal, No 8-9, 1973. (full facsimile)