“… the visual poetry which our learned professors have been hiding from us all these years because it confuses their neat pictures, but that’s another story.” Dick Higgins, from the preface to Artist’s Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook (1985).
code from: 1george2 + [xy]happens[dance] revisited
fla source: typo1
site tags: eye candy, letters, typography, vispo, x, y
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May 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
xy+:= ***** :-)
!
word = error
:-(
typo1 = true[type]
xy+… won’t dance on my mac
(not in chiller unless i fork out some £££$$$)
cx
May 14th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
there are better ways
to spend your money
>;r
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 am
I’ve been reading a great book by his daughter Hannah… ‘Fluxus Experience’.
“Rather than merely multiplying existing media categories, like multimedia (as in opera, whcih discretely combines theatre with music and dance) or mixed media (as in illustrated stories, presenting complementary images and words), intermedia actively probes the spaces between the different media.”
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
heya babel
Richard Kostelanetz wrote an interesting essay on artist’s books in which he says that “In order to understand and appreciate a book of the old art, it is necessary to read it thoroughly … In the new art you often do NOT need to read the whole book.” In your work using the random, it is often impossible to ‘read’ the whole piece. I find this element especially appealing because a person can return and experience an entirely different ‘reading’ with each visit. The above piece, xy+:=/\][()*, is a remix using code from 2 of your original works. It uses letters and punctuation from that code to create a typographical mismash that has no single author. In that regard, it probes the in-between space (or, to borrow from Flashspeak, the tween space ;-)
>:r
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Yes, the digital in-between is an interesting place! Even (thoroughly) reading a linear piece would need access to the source code, the software to open it, and the programming skill to decipher it… an interesting mix of social, economic, educational factors. Add in the collaborative and random factors – the morphing code sources and generative code results – and it really is a difficult thing to read completely. Yet it can be read (hopefully) satisfactorily and successfully by someone with none of these thorough requirements…
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
…> reading…> unpacking…> deconstructing…> reconstructing…> remixing…> repackaging…> re-reading…> unreading?…> unpacking…> deconstructing…> reconstructing…> remixing…> …> …
…> = an in-between space, a gap, a leap, an opportunity to jump off in any direction …>
// all diagrams, all theories are inadequate…> there are so many…> i n – b e t w e e n s p a c e s . . . >
all reading is incomplete, all writing is incomplete…> creativity comes from a state or sense of incompletion
completion = the end = the final full stop
c x
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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July 17th, 2008 at 6:07 am
see postcard sent to mo’po
word = thing
x related to y
>:r
July 21st, 2008 at 5:29 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Just came across Johann Drucker’s wonderful project Artists’ Books Online: ABsOnline.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 am
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