April 2006

Fonts and Letters

Administrator | April 8th, 2006

Ascii fonts and Ascii art. Through the most simple elements of language. Related to Perec’s contrainte technics, the ability of raising another meaning through text. The layout reduced to it’s minimal grid. Combinations, metatexts. Fonts done by fonts. Minimal, monospaced. The grid. The meaning pushed over the seeming.

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Procedures & Protocoles

Administrator | April 7th, 2006

So far, A.I. has failed to deliver the practical proof. Instead, outside of its stated goal it has produced interesting technological and cultural by-products for fifty years, such as the programming language Lisp, or the GNU project that was initiated in the MIT artificial intelligence lab. (Florian Cramer) GNU laws for Free Softwares: 1. The […]

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Special Event! Kommando Otl Aicher

Administrator | April 5th, 2006

On Tuesday, the 25th of april 2006, 14:00, at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Alexander Negrelli’s lecture: Kommando Otl Aicher When graphic designer Otl Aicher was nominated as main commissioner for the public image of the XX. Olympic project in Munich, this was no coincidence. At this time he was directing the HfG Ulm design […]

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In the beginning was the word

Administrator | April 5th, 2006

In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has remained one of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and the word was flesh we are told. In the beginning of what exactly was this beginning word? In the beginning of WRITTEN history. It is generally assumed that spoken word […]

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