The first book cover (I have seen) to use PETSCII (Commodore ASCII) characters as a pattern.
It is part of a compilation of writing from software artists (via Amazon):
This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it aa a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
Previous posts on this piece of code from this blog can be found here (image) and here (video)
When talking about the construction of a Wikipedia page, we are talking about the action of collective creation. But it works not by simple mathematical sum of knowledge of the contributors. More than that, it is about the full development of the whole structure of this free encyclopedia, including issues such as rules of conduct, arguments and discussion.
Therefore, it involves the process of edition and their values for understand how the knowledge came to be and be understood.
To illustrate this point in a physical way, the writer and editor James Bridle published this month a set of books with every edit made to a single Wikipedia article. The entry elected was “The Iraq War”.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/tag/wikipedia/
“I propose that (some of) the purposes of literature are to reveal what we know but don’t know that we know, and to transform what we know we know into what we don’t yet know. [Literature achieves this by] activating a recursive feedback loop between knowledge realized in the body through gesture, ritual, performance, posture, and enactment, and knowledge realized in the neocortex as conscious and explicit articulations.”
Presentation “Media, literacy and the literary system: How social media are affecting literary professionals” delivered at Literacy and Society, Culture, Media & Education (Ghent, 9-11 Feb. 2012).
The world’s first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived at CeBIT 2010. The Intendix from Guger Technologies (g*tec) is a system that uses an EEG cap to measure brain activity in order to let you type with your thoughts. Meant to work with those with locked-in syndrome, or other disabilities, Intendix is simple enough to use after just 10 minutes of training. You simply focus on a grid of letters as they flash. When your desired letter lights up, brain activity spikes and Intendix types it.
”Text lasts. It’s not platform-dependant, you don’t just get it from one source, read it in one place, understand it in one way. It is not dependent on technology: it is what we make technology out of. Code is text, it is the fundamental nature of technology. We’ve been trying for decades, since the advent of hypertext fiction, of media-rich CD-ROMs, to enhance the experience of literature with multimedia. And it has failed, every time.”
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James Henkel, Sun Spots, 1996
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