Hypergraphy, also called Hypergraphics, super-writing, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Hypergraphy merges poetry (text) with more visual (graphic) ways of communication such as painting, illustration or signs. This technique was first known as 'metagraphics', but later became known as 'hypergraphics'.

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  • Hypergraphy, also called Hypergraphics, super-writing, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Hypergraphy merges poetry (text) with more visual (graphic) ways of communication such as painting, illustration or signs. This technique was first known as 'metagraphics', but later became known as 'hypergraphics'. Maurice Lemaître, a Lettrist theorist, defined it as communicating through the union of various forms of communication, as an "ensemble of signs capable of transmitting the reality served by the conscienceness more exactly than all the former fragmentary and partial practices (phonetic alphabets, algebra, geometry, painting, music, and so forth). " The technique was used in Lettrist painting, cinema - which involved directly drawing of letters onto the film as well as techniques of Discrepant cinema. As the Lettrists became more experimental in their use of media, the technique was applied more to 'everyday life' in critiquing urbanism and architecture in the Lettrist field of psychogeography.
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  • Hypergraphy, also called Hypergraphics, super-writing, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Hypergraphy merges poetry (text) with more visual (graphic) ways of communication such as painting, illustration or signs. This technique was first known as 'metagraphics', but later became known as 'hypergraphics'.
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