Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante with support from RadioLab
” … there is a fundamental requirement which the various kinds of concrete poetry meet: concentration upon the physical material from which the poem or text is made. Emotions and ideas are not the physical materials of poetry. … Generally speaking the material of the concrete poem is language …” (Concrete Poetry — A World View. 1968.)
“The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global finance.
We use up-to-date 2.0 trend analysis and data visualization technologies, neural networks, graph theory or quantitative structural linguistics in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.”
Christophe Bruno (2002 – 2008)
Lilian Lijn, Sky Never Stops, 1965, Collection V&A Museum
Broken Jaw (2006)
Concrete, enamel paint,vinyl lettering. Sculpture: 70 x 60 x 50cm. Text dimensions variable.
“Ces arbres reposent sur une arborescence complexe composée des lettres de l’alphabet.”
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language crawls thru tree tunnels
unknotting calibrated moist
interfaces of cambium cognition
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The series attempts to break down our understanding of language and challenge our relationship to meaning. The languages referenced include an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to Mandarin. Each episode is 3 minutes in length including a short introduction.
Why does this img remind me of txt msgs?

- Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature, 1890
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