Asger Jorn

Asger Jorn (3rd March 1914 - 1st May 1973) was born in Verjum[?], Jutland, Denmark under the name Oluf J�rgensen[?]. Sometimes also called Asgar Jorn. He was a brother to J�rgen Nash. In 1936 he went to Paris to join Fernand L�ger's Acad�mie Contemporaine[?]. During the Nazi occupation[?] of Denmark Jorn was an active communist in the resistance. He participated in the art group H�st[?].

After the occupation was over, room for critical thinking was curtailed by more centralised poltical control. Jorn found this unacceptable and broke with the Danish Communist Party[?] whilst remaining a lifelong communist. He was a founder member of Cobra and was a prime mover of their subsequent merger with the Lettriste Internationale[?] and London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International (S.I.). Here he applied his scientific and mathematical knowledge drawn from Henri Poincar� and Niels Bohr to develop his situlogical technique.

In 1961 he left the S.I. to found the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.

His philosophical system Triolectics[?] was given a practical manifestation through the development of Three sided football.