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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

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 […]

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 […]

A little summary of the walks done in the field of books, during past 2 month Book is in mutation. What it shows is a different apprehension and use of language and codes. Books are no more the only one media support, but has its own specificity. Dematerialisation, new ‘seeing’ practice, technical progress, new beauty […]

open(THIS,’and’);open (THAT,”>>and”);while(){print$_; print THAT”#$_”}; “#to”; close (THIS); From opening Perl poem, of Florian Cramer. 2001/3, public domain. Gopher: http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/

I\IIIIIII/IIII\IIIIIIIIIII_ IIII\\IIII///II_II\\IIIIIII II//I\\IIIIIII\\\IIII_IIIII IIIIII\IIIIIII\IIIIIIIIIIII IIIII=IIII///IIIIIIIIIIIII\ The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges I would love to have a program that generates those books, and keeping on memory “real” words, and writting another book with those words. Generating all combination possible of letters, Computer poem, as genius as the whole world litterature… “There are five […]

Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth February 1994 Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 4 Patent and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231 Dear Commissioner: Along with many other computer scientists, I would like to ask you to reconsider the current policy of giving patents for computational processes. I find a considerable anxiety […]

There are interesting similitude in “succession of actions” (algorithms) that we can find on the 3 subjects In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a procedure (a finite set of well-defined instructions) for accomplishing some task which, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state. Informally, the concept of an algorithm is […]