“Beyond the hype of Helvetica I want to profile type and text in the very early era of computational font.”


In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’

auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”


2008, six-channel interactive video installation, 30′x20′
computers, six video projectors, three video cameras, custom software, vinyl floor

in Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

“I invoke Perec’s Judaism only in the way that he did—by scorning religious ritual, and investigating the esoteric aspects, especially the parallels between Oulipian restrictions and the disciplines of kabbalah.”


“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983


March 15th, 2009: Poem above is output from Manchester Mark I emulator by David Link. “The emulator currently runs Christopher Strachey’s “Loveletters” program from 1952 in its original form.”


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holy mountain takes on an algorithmic new look
MD wine 3 gene asci
another redundant simulation curve about redundancy

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This is a picture of a note (p.420) I made to myself while reading JH Prynne ‘Poems’

JH Prynne’s recent poetical works remind me so much of a really sweetly tuned algorithm.

Are poets becoming computers as computers become poets?

“…a large scale experiment on search engine behaviour was staged with more than two billion different web pages. This experiment lasted exactly one year…”

“The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva.”



“Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider

The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.”

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UAE, RAS AL KHAIMAH, 2006

Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf of Office for Metropolitan Architecture


This project represents a final attempt at distinction through architecture:not through the creation of the next bizarre image, but through a return to pure form.


Algorithmic Improvisations on the 74 Unique Words of Gadji Beri Bimba

Eno at Pop Start:
“…what Darwin did for life, we need to do for culture…”
“…culture is the way we look at ourselves, with which we can surrender…and try out different ways of being and feeling…”