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Construisez un livre comme un corps se mouvant dans l’espace et le temps, comme un relief dynamique dans lequel chaque page est une surface contenant des formes, et chaque page tournée une traversée vers la prochaine étape d’une structure unique. El Lissitzky, 1920

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Interesting to see, according to Florian Cramer, why games are forbidden by religion: The game by contast is a central model of 20th century computation, both in the arts and in technology. The main ontological difference between theosophic and game computing is that games can do without a reference to higher powers—which is why religions […]

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Stuart Bailey, talking about a recent worksop at USC, california. Using Georges Perec’s system of the Exercice de style, where the same action is described in 99 different writing styles, Bailey interessantly evokes this practice into Graphic design language: “The implication of this in terms of graphic design is that any piece of work could […]