"Our mission is to continue the oral tradition utilizing modern technology."

Daniel Beatty "Nerd v N!gga"

Xerox Inkless Printer

Docly, the Web 2.0 online word processor with copyright protection, automatically assigns copyrights

Yuki-taro autonomous snowplow robot

"Fabbers (a.k.a 3D Printers or rapid prototyping machines) are a relatively new form of manufacturing that builds 3D objects by carefully depositing materials drop by drop, layer by layer."

mladen penev

Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect's Brother

"They decide to meet up, but in an attempt to keep their interaction interesting, they make a pact to not speak to one another. As their romance develops, they only write, draw, email, text, have sex, instant message, and make videos for each other. No talking."

"In life never do as others do…Either do nothing—just go to school—or do something nobody else does."

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

"I believe there is simply ourselves, and where we are has a particularity which we'd better use because that's about all we've got...there is no other culture. There is simply the literal essence and exactitude of your own. I mean, the streets you live on, or the clothes you wear, or the colour of you hair....Truth lies solely in what you do with it....

Put an end to nation, put an end to culture, put an end to divisions of all sorts."

Charles Olson, July 20th, 1965, Berkeley (Causal Mythology, p.36)

Granary Books

“observing progressive scholarship and supporting adventurous book making in the context of exploring the relationships between seeing and reading, reading and seeking.”

"The physical fact of language --uttered, inscribed, marked, or frozen in front of our faces in the cold light of bitter days -- reminds us that there is no communication without the phatic exchange of substances.

A prophylactic attitude attempts to protect the imagination from direct encounters with the world as the tongue, the hand, the arm, the fist around the pen, the fingers on the keyboard all reach into the heavy flesh of matter and are rewarded by the sensate experience."

Johanna Drucker in 'Figuring the Word' ( 1998, Granary ) p.55

Humanity Lobotomy Save the Internet

Boom Bip & Doseone - The Birdcatcher's Return

Brian Eno H.Budd The Plateaux of Mirror First Light

Sarah Peebles

"...the real change we must confront and understand is not a new selection of canonical great books but, as our expressive radical moves from print to screen, a new conception of human reason and how Western culture creates and transmits it."

The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts, Richard Lanham (1993)

"Bell Labs scientist Thomas K. Landauer (pictured above) determined in 1984 that human beings can retain about 2 bits of memory per second. This holds under all experimental conditions whether the information is visual, verbal, musical, etc."

via Accelerating Future who mention the intriguing
Social Life of Information

Critical Art Ensemble

The Sharpest object yet made

A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second).

"Maybe I will be the last person on Earth to get an e-mail account, but that won't be a bad thing. "

Evelyn Lau

As I was coming home tonight, at 319 Main St, Vancouver, a window was being projected on from inside and it was playing excerpts from:
the 1995 PBS series United States of Poetry
What is this place on main st? I like it but the doors were locked.

Sheldon Brown

The Scalable City is a set of projects that explore the externalization of algorithmic approaches to urbanization which intersect with geographic, political, economic and aesthetic zones of conflict.

Ebon Fisher's NervePool

"This paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory"

Clifford Lynch, First Monday, volume 6, number 6 (June 2001)

1980s-1995: MIT Visible Language Group

Bob Stein, new media pioneer, creater of TK3, interviewed in Halo by "This Spartan Life" about future of the book as a networked, media rich, mutating, 3D navigatable space.

Bob Stein: "The much more significant issue about the book of the future is that they will be networked, and won't be frozen; they'll change over time, quite rapidly...[and re: Muriel Cooper's work on navigable 3D space]...To be able to walk around in a book this way will be brilliant."

"I weep over my imperfect pages, but if future generations read them, they will be more touched by my weeping than by any perfection I might have achieved, since perfection would have kept me from weeping and, therefore, from writing. The saint weeps, and is human. God is silent. That is why we can love the saint but not God."

Pessoa, F. (1991). The Book of Disquiet. New York: Pantheon Books.

"Between sleeping and waking
in concrete made flesh
an early ear hears light approach
an early throat groans"

Charles Ducal, a Belgian pig farmer poet
on Poetry International Web

Afew concrete poetry sites with pdfs, etc....

SPIDERTANGLE


GAMM :::


Word for Word

"A death of someone is actually nothing more than what the death causes to leave behind, to bring into view.* Emmett Williams—one of the more famous of the concrete poets, a Fluxist, and simply an otherstream artist of our time—died in Berlin this Wednesday [Feb 14,2007], on Valentine’s Day...."

Geof Huth, dbqp: visualizing poetics

Micahel Denhoff : Textbilder

"Text becomes picture."

Design Incubation Centre (2006) :

"Dandella is a hand-held GPS tracking device designed to help and guide the lost by always physically pointing towards the destination."

Robert Smithson
Heap of Language, 1966

"Metal RubberTM is a unique self-assembled nanocomposite material that combines the high electrical conductivity of metals with the low mechanical modulus of elastomers."

Sleepbot
"... unconscious listening environment."

"...it is often/only at the expense of what is is information in language --it's complexity in material, syntactic, poetic, or even vernacular form-- that language functions in the electronic environment."
Johanna Drucker
LANGUAGE AS INFORMATION: INTIMATIONS OF IMMATERIALITY (1996)

HarS :

"...ookoi at arti...The kibibyte is a collection of one thousand and twenty four seven second extracts"

Subversion

"What makes the Subversion repository special is that it remembers every change ever written to it: every change to every file, and even changes to the directory tree itself, such as the addition, deletion, and rearrangement of files and directories."

Flaxus

"Flaxus is also a collaborative tool that promotes network tasking by allowing the real time creation of a piece amongst various executors connected through the internet."

"The brain needs no central-control mechanism to direct mental life; interactions within and among networks do the trick."

Rokeby 2001 -- Machine for Taking Time

"Every day since March 28, 2001, the system has been taking still images from 1079 pre-determined positions along a sweeping path around the garden."

Lincoln Schwartz 2007 -- backward
"This work remembers. It creates layers of the history of the space, recombining disparate topics from consumer housewares to medical technology back into one study of a specific location."

Paradise Engineering

" The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture - a motivational system based on heritable gradients of bliss."

hypergraphia
autism
300 orgasms a day
congenital insensitivity to pain

coalesced at
8 diseases that give u superhuman powers

HAVIDOL®

HAVIDOL®: "Havidol should be taken indefinitely."

PV 3D demo

we-make-money-not-art

Cati Vaucelle

"Textable Movie retrieves movie segments and sounds in a specified database, from analyzing textual input...."

The Comfort Sphere is conceived as a solitary, holistic sensory space...

Shusaku Arakawa: "People, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline. They should be in an environment that stimulates their senses..."

Time-lapse movies of oligodendrocyte progenitor migration « Neurophilosophy

Time-lapse movies of oligodendrocyte progenitor migration « Neurophilosophy

"Oligodendrocytes are glial cells which form the myelin sheaths around axons in the central nervous system. These cells have a small number of cytoplasmic processes - the name oligodendrocyte comes from the Greek roots oligo, meaning ‘few’, dendro meaning ‘branch’, and kytos which denotes ‘cell’ -...."

we are very small

VidLit

Consider the Lobster -- David Wallace

Jim Andrews -- Vispo

David Clark

Lionel Kearns

"...With its numberless points of intersection, its uneven intervals, its variation and variety, this life spins beyond my grasp. All I can do is use what I have at hand, language and its peripherals, the technologies of consciousness, to lay down a few reflective strips that catch the flicker of these moments as they flash into being and are gone."

F.I.L.E

"...disruption of the right, but not the left, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) by low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation substantially reduces subjects' willingness to reject their partners' intentionally unfair offers, which suggests that subjects are less able to resist the economic temptation to accept these offers. Importantly, however, subjects still judge such offers as very unfair..."

Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex
Daria Knoch et al
published online 4 October 2006
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1129156]

Levitated :: Jared Tarbell

WEN writing, script, language, literature, literary
ZI character, ideogram (pronounced "dzzz")
WEN ZI writing system, written language, script (pronounced WEN DZZZ)
CONCRETE 具象 JUXIANG, as used in "concrete poetry" or "musique concr怼e"

Tristan Tzara's dada cut-up newspaper poem game in multimedia form

2 Blinds and a Bittern -- Glazer, Lehoczki

Study in Threes -- Ramey, Lind, Lindstrom

POSTLANGUAGE POETRY:

"...literature is too multi-faceted, rambunctious, and iconoclastic to fit the limits of any definition... Literary theory does continue to be a central part of the practice of many postlanguage poets, yet they tend to undertake it with an ambivalent and often wearied eye....Thus, while narrative, lyric, spirituality, and a poetics of the everyday appear often as elements that language poets think should be rejected, postlanguage poets such as Juliana Spahr, Susan Smith Nash, Jefferson Hansen, Liz Willis, Peter Gizzi, Chris Stroffolino, Jennifer Moxley, Joe Ross, Lisa Jarnot, myself and many others have been consciously using one or several of these elements in their work, without returning to the sort of naive justifications of those elements that continue to be a feature of more mainstream American poetry."

Saul Williams, The DEAD EMCEE Scrolls

Ani DeFranco

Leonard Cohen

dj Krust -- coded language

Barbara Kruger

Robert Bowen : Textscapes

Bowen: "All the images have one thing in common: they are created with typographical symbols and they function both as pictures and as texts. Ultimately for me they are virtual images of virtual things."
[Source: Wands, B. (2006). Art of the Digital Age. London: Thames & Hudson. ]

TextArc.org :

"...a visual represention of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning."

textetc : literary theory: an evaluation:
"Theory does not deal with absolutes but with possibilities, speculations, elusive chains of thought...Is there now a generally correct theory of literature? No. Is there a body of thought that is broadly accepted? Far from it: the scene is a battlefield of opinions and assertions, with little supporting thought or experiment."

CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss - Home

Time has no meaning

2005, Bionic Arm

"Doctors take nerves that used to go to the arm and move those nerves onto chest muscles. The nerves grow into the chest muscles, so when the patient thinks “close hand,” a portion of his chest muscle contracts and electrodes that detect this muscle activity tell the computerized arm when to close the hand."

transmediale.07 / Home

unfinish! investigates artistic processes that are open to change and reversal of decisions.
unfinish! is the battle cry and the curse of digital work that knows no conclusion, but only consecutive versions. A paradigm of digital culture?

Are you ready to unfinish your world?

transmediale.07 / Keynote: Stelarc

An ear has been surgically constructed on his arm. The intention with this soft prosthesis is to wirelessly connect it to the internet to enable it to become a listening device for remote others. Stelarc considers the ear prosthesis not as a sign of physical malfunction, but rather as a symbol for an additional feature - not a sign of loss but rather a symptom of excess. Thus he tries to amplify the forms and functions of the human body, exposing its obsolescence and producing a human-machine-hybrid which questions the notion of the architecture, engineering and operation of the human body.

Human Browser

The Human Browser - Le Navigateur Humain

A project by Christophe Bruno (2001 - 2007)

AMAZON NOIR ~ The Big Book Crime

On February 1, Toppan Printing unveiled new nanotext printing technology for inserting microscopic text into holographic images.
[Source: Pink Tentacle]

Sartorial Contemporary Art - Gavin Nolan - British Contemporary Art Gallery - Unnateral Selection