Emma Cocker is a writer-artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research enquiry unfolds at the threshold between writing/art, involving diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. Cocker often works in collaboration with other artists on durational projects, where the studio-gallery or site-specific context is approached as a live laboratory for shared artistic research. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Live Coding: A User's Manual, 2023, and in the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and How Do You Do?, 2025. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. See also https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839

Visual Poetry Anthology: Synapse Internation



Edited by Karl Kempton, Synapse International is an online visual-text-art-blog-anthology that contains visual poetry, minimalist poetry, book art, mail art, word painting, contemporary calligraphy, word sculpture, visual-text-centered collage, visual-text-centered photography, mathematical poetry. The purpose is to provide the best possible works to a world audience...and start dialogue.

My work was selected for inclusion in A CONSTELLATION OF EUROPE, the first Guest editor Philip Davenport. This issue of the anthology features work by: nick-e Melville; Bruno Neiva; Kristin Mueller; Bárbara Mesquita; Bruno Ministro; Darren Marsh; Anatol Knotek; Mikko Kuorinki; Sarah Eliza Kelly; Piotr Kalisz; Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim; Steve Giasson, a European; Thomas Geiger; Romain Gandolphe; Philip Davenport; Erkembode; Matt Dalby; James Davies; Emma Cocker; Paula Claire; Ana Cancela; Kimberly Campanello; Leanne Bridgewater; Zeynep Cansu Başeren; arthur+Martha; Guillaume Apollonaire; P.S. ABC; Eric Zboya; Orban, Victor: a portrait; Bilyk, Volodymyr – Володимир Білик; Martijn in ‘t Veld; seekers of lice; Tony Trehy; Miron Tee; Riiko Sakkinen; Jörg Piringer; Stephen Nelson; Camilla Nelson; Liliane Lijn