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.’
Elsewhere : Anderswo – 2009: “… a site-specific sound installation across two sites. Visitors carry small GPS-equipped computers and wear headphones. Sounds play automatically in response to their movements in the landscape … they move through layer upon layer of responsive sound …”
” … 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.)
“Literatronic is an artificial intelligence engine that designs a fiction book specific to every reader based on her/his interaction with the system. “
“Alphabetic writing, like all technological systems and apparatuses, operates according to what might be called a corporeal axiomatic: it engages directly and inescapably with the bodies of its users. It makes demands and has corporeal effects. … The alphabet does this by imposing it own mediological needs on the body, from the evident perceptual and cognitive skills required to read and write to the invisible, neurological transformations which it induces in order to function. ”
Cage estimates that the game has roughly as much content as five feature films. “We don’t have ‘game over’ situations,” says Cage. “If you die as one character, you can play through to a different ending with the others. We saw the game as a journey, not like a series of obstacles that you need to go through. The point is for the experience to change when you change your actions.”
“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”
“The light sculpture Death calls the tune filters all the news items which go around the world minute by minute for those which deal with perdition and misery on our planet. Managed by a microcontroller the pick-up of the remodelled record player “burns” the 60 token long headlines of them into the groomed light disc which turns steadily.”
“Free e-books work for me.”
“Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers.”
(photo by yhancik)
“The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies.”
watch the blurb self-assemble on utube
Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983
“As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it…”
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as u write
hold yr breath
until the computer finishes the phrase
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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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Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular – New York Times
Rin, 21, tapped out a novel on her cellphone that sold 400,000 copies in hardcover.
Algorithmic Improvisations on the 74 Unique Words of Gadji Beri Bimba
Writing.3D Editor’s Introduction:
“…a three-dimensional text – whether it be presented in the immersive reading environment of a Cave, a game space, a QuickTime video, or a Javascript poem – requires an adaptive flexibility that we might even call a new mode of reading, a ‘deep reading.’ “
“The phrase ‘technologies of writing’ refers not to the script or alphabet, the calligraphic or marking system that a text employs, but to the practical methods by which these systems are applied—pencil, brush, quill, ink, paint, print, machine key and pixel—and to the material surfaces and sites of writing itself—clay, animal skin, parchment, linen, wood pulp and cyberspace.”
The pictograph for “water” pronounced nubecame the symbol for the consonantal sound of N.; This practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in the development of an ALPHABET or the “One Sign-One sound” system of writing.
Docly, the Web 2.0 online word processor with copyright protection, automatically assigns copyrights 
“observing progressive scholarship and supporting adventurous book making in the context of exploring the relationships between seeing and reading, reading and seeking.”
Crystalpunk: Meaning is to language what Soup is to a Fork
“Crystalpunk is a panoply of ideas revolving around the same few Wandering Stars: the Game of Go and the Game of Life, the origin of language and the origin of mind, the suspected but never-realised capabilities of mind, matter, memory and computers whispered into your inner ear by unknown writers and succumbi, the power of abstraction and a melancholy for the noise lost, the BacterioPoetic and the cybernetic writing machine envisaged by Italo Calvino and William S. Burroughs”
