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Paul Prudence

16 days

This week I received the news that I have been accepted to give a talk about my book Figured Stones at The Geological Society @GeolSoc Earth’s Canvas: Exploring Geology in Creativity takes place in September at Burlington House. Excited.

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Paul Prudence

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4 months

There is something more beyond aesthetics and the lineage of programmable machines that connects 'computer-art' with weaving. Like much textile craft there is folk-art aspect to creating art from code that comes through community and the open sharing of patterns and programs...

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Ryuichi Yamashiro Forest, 1954

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The aesthetics of old lace-knit patterns - part cellular automata, part musical score/sequencer pattern, part cryptographic cipher... all the good things!

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1 year

Weaving is computing ⇢ Pixel shading from a Victorian manual on textile design [1895] 8-bit proto-pointillismo for all the ditherists out there. ⇢

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Phasing with... vibrations de signes - Henri Chopin, 1988

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(ᵚ---)æveform

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Stempeltext - Ferdinand Kriwet, 1963.

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3 months

Works by Mary Ellen Solt, 1950's and 60's

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Cyclographic Transformation of Ordinary Space – The University of Colorado Studies. [1902-03]

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Illustrations from Principles of Microscopy - Edward Wright, 1906. →

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3 years

Introducing my new plotter / drawing device ⇢ for mechanical drawings, writing without words #machinicunconscious

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2 months

Just heard the news that Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Huge inspiration, thank you! 🖤

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GOTO 1975 Melvin L Prueitt included a selection of graphical rendering errors in his book Computer Graphics (1975) - possibility some of the earliest examples of 'glitch art' to appear in print?

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Diversions, distractions, inversions..roads not taken (yet) #textmode #textile #texto #ascii

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3 years

Study for Graphic Tectonic series – Josef Albers [1941-42] | Unintentionally solving the microchip layout problem

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Paul Prudence

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1 month

'Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music' Plastic Representation of the Fugue in E Flat Minor by J.S. Bach - Heinrich Neugeboren [1928]

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Paul Prudence

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3 months

w(e)aveforms A waveform or a weaveform? It's both... some sort of w(e)ave-particle duality going on... #textmode #wip #ascii #weaveform

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Paul Prudence

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9 months

Returning to Wacław Szpakowski's space-filling drawings made from continuous lines- a series which was begun around around 1900! Read more in Sarah Cowan's essay at The @parisreview →

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Paul Prudence

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11 months

Models, dioramas & sculptures by Isamu Noguchi. An extensive online collection of Noguchi's work can be found at the @NoguchiMuseum ⇢

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Paul Prudence

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6 months

Between 1963 and '69 Ulla Wiggen made a series of paintings of circuit board schematics and close up studies of the interiors of electrical components, cleverly combining realism and abstraction. →

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Paul Prudence

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The unintentional visual poetry of 'Paratone Screens, Patterns, Colors' → By way of @presentcorrect →

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6 months

Phasing with.... Carl Andre, Untitled, 1963

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James Siena’s works on paper with ink and graphite use a self-imposed set of rules which he calls “visual algorithms”

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Paul Prudence

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4 months

Weaving Pattern Manuscript, attributed to John Lande, c. 1800 at Philadelphia Museum of Art @philamuseum →

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1 year

Earliest known schematic of the human visual system - Book of Optics - Ibn Al-Haytham [c935-1039]

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Works by Erthos Albino de Souza, from the early 70's → Erthos composed his spatial poems using Fortran and the PL1 software language. →

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2 months

Returning to 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts's 'Mathematical Models of Consciousness' →

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8 months

Anni Albers, Typewriter study to create textile effect. Made on an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter. Via @monoskop

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1 month

Visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with Vasily Kandinsky' - Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann [1930] → Bottom text: 'graphical image arrangement for a coloured movie with sound visualization of the components' Thanks for the translation @vortacorg

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Paul Prudence

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9 months

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz - Emmett Williams, 1963

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⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰ ⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱ ⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲ ⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳ ⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴ ⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵ ⿸⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶ ⿹⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷ ⿺⿻⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸

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Paul Prudence

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24 days

Paul Klee Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre, 1921-1922

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Paul Prudence

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1 year

Frauhofer patterns from 'Diffraction in the Fundamental Laws of Wave Theory - Friedrich M Schwerd [1835]

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Paul Prudence

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3 months

Not instructions for a game of recursive chess, or an outbreak of Cellular Automata, but weave patterns for textile designs in Design Texts - Fenwick Umpleby [1910] →

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Paul Prudence

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2 months

First edition ℵ : Spotted in a bookshop two stone throws away from the old Biblioteca Nacional on Calle México.

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Paul Prudence

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The rules of the game are the game.

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7 months

William T. Astbury & Kathleen Yardley’s Space-group Diagrams from: Tabulated Data for the Examination of the 230 Space-Groups by Homogeneous X-Rays, [1924] The 230 Space-Groups form a complete notation of all possible atomic lattice configurations in crystals

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Chromatic Diagram of Harmonies from 'The Rotation of Colored Disks' - John Gorham [1861]

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Marian Zazeela (1940–2024) Now entering the Dream House ॐ Design D, #3 , 1966 | Page from Illuminated Manuscript, 1962/1995

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Paul Prudence

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Schrift und Bild / Schrift en beeld / L’art et l’écriture / Art and writing, Edited by Dietrich Mahlow, Typos Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1963 → at: garadinervi : repertori

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Paul Prudence

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5 months

In an interview with @postanika at @ExpandedArt I mentioned the importance of 'artist-as-researcher' (know your field). I revealed 4 of my favourite (female) artists who have work(ed) with type/text. Clockwise: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Sonya Rapoport, Anni Albers, Egidija Čiricaitė.

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Paul Prudence

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6 months

I've created large batch of new typewriter drawings on my trusty Lettera 22 in the last few weeks and have got the RSI to prove it. It seems I want my typewriter to be a knitting machine. A wee note: I have a degree in textile design.

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Paul Prudence

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6 months

It could be noise, or it could be xenolinguistics for optical character recognition systems. _(๑′ᴗ‵๑)_ Impressions from @Cementimental 's fantastic Harsh Noise Graphic Novel - '300 pages of pixel-noisescapes, created solely using the antique mac paint app LightningPaint'

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Paul Prudence

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I keep returning to Milan Adamčiak's work since discovering it a few days ago. Elegant, light and lyrical. Adamčiak was a musicologist and composer, aside from being a visual artist. → Trojrozmerná partitúra, 1969 Transfigurazioni, 1979 (◕!◕) ��

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Paul Prudence

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3 years

Scriptograms & Isonotations from 2020 - #isomorphicdrawing

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Paul Prudence

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4 months

I first came across these stunning geological diagrams via @geoffmanaugh ⚬ @socks_studio has hand-picked a good selection at The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams. ⚬ For @wblut (I'm sure he may have seen them) →

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Discrete diagrams of desire... Dynamical Systems & Cellular Automata - J.Demongeot, & E. Goles [1985]

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Untitled - Agnes Denes (from ‘Fragmentation’), Edizioni Il Bulino, Rome, 1998

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3 years

Computational concrete poetry / or how to draw with alphanumerics | The works of Frederick Hammersley using IBM punch-cards from 1969 | Essay:

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1 year

Returning to these mnemonic synthesizers → The Lukasa memory boards of the Bambudye photos: Brooklyn Museum/Wikimedia/Smithsonian

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2 months

Principles of the Science of Colour - William Benson & Joseph Wilson Lowry [1876] →

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Returning to Josef Albers' Tectonic series, because these zinc plate lithographs are always remote sensing me from afar with their optical dimensionalities arrived at from such minimum means.

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Paul Prudence

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2 months

Excited to announce that Wæveform will be released on @foundation on the 27th March. ∿ The piece is both a weave, a wave; and wæveform.

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Paul Prudence

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1 year

'Architecture transformed into a mutating biological organism.. [ ] ..following a principle of cellular multiplication' ⇢ Competition University Project - Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth [1974] ⇢

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Paul Prudence

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3 months

A map author draws on two universes. The first is the universe of concepts which can function as signs on maps. The second is the expression of the material which can function as expressions on maps #textmode #ascii #textile #semigraph #wip

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6 months

Pixelating with... Jennifer Bartlett's Positive Negative Series, 1971 at the @PaulaCooperNY →

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3 years

'If you want to touch the sky Just put a window in your eye' | Cantus Perpetuus – Alfred Schnittke [1975] 'Arrangement of twelve 35-note segments on two-stave systems, enclosed by geometric patterns in five colours' | Open to interpretations by the performers

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Paul Prudence

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4 years

Graphic scores for analogue speech synthesis | Vocal Charts, Advanced Elocution - Rachel Walter Shoemaker and George Beswick Hynson [1896]

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7 months

The Music of Nomography – Design of Diagrams for Engineering Formulas - Laurence Hewes & Herbert Seward, 1923 ༟ Nomographs are diagrams for the computation of linear or non-linear functions. They also lead double lives as musical scores. ༟

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4 months

A Pythagorean Notebook, Alfred Jensen, 1965. →

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7 years

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt's typewriting series conceptual textual & concrete poetry via @derekbeaulieu

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Some new typed drawings based in formal rule sets. It's interesting to see an emergence of pattern from a seemingly innocuous series of numbers.

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2 months

Returning to this image from A Course of Lectures on Natural philosophy and the Mechanical Arts - Thomas Young [1807] →

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5 years

The visual poetry of…. A History of Physics - Charles-Albert Reichen [1963]

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8 months

The music of weaving from... ༟ The Art of Weaving, by Hand and Power - Clinton G Gilroy [1844] ༟

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Works by Henri Chopin, from the late 1980s, at the Fondazione Bonotto →

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7 months

'A loosely wrapped and gently nudged font of 12 pt Bembo' Untitled print by Jens Jørgen Hansen

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Drawing for House Within a House: Todoroki Residence Ichikawa Hiromi Fujii, (1976)

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Wæveform ∿ ཐིཋྀ wing mode

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Text.ile Brought to you today with the characters: e,m,x,/+ .

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Visual Poetry by Women, an International Exhibition in Venice at Theideaofthebook, 1972 →

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Often the some of the best sources of visual inspiration arrive from less than likely sources, including 17th century carpentry & joinery manuals →

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2 years

Over two years in the making, absolutely delighted to see my book now available to order at the wonderful @Corbel_Stone → → Lithic scrying, geological consciousness, planetary introspection, vibrant materialism....

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4 months

'AsciiDots is an esoteric programming language based on ascii art. In this language, dots, represented by periods (.), travel down ascii art paths and undergo operations' → The example here is counter. →

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5 months

From my photo archive: weave designs by Annie Albers, which were on display at the @Tate Modern, in 2018. 10 sheets of proto-pixel art for the pixel pointillists.

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Paul Prudence

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Darwin's diagrams recording the movements of 'crafty and sagacious' climbing plants across several days found in 'The Power of Movement in Plants' (1880). Doubling as provident star-maps for light seekers. At the excellent @PublicDomainRev →

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Mounted watercolour drawings of textile designs from an untitled work by Robert Maison [1863]. ⇢ Precognitions of concrete poetry, Dadaist collage and Bauhaus textiles that were yet to come / via @PublicDomainRev ⇢

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5 years

Competition University Project - Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth [1974] 'architecture transformed into a mutating biological organism.. [ ] ..following a principle of cellular multiplication'

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Paul Prudence

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4 months

Returning often to Kenneth Martin's prescient 'Chance & Order' series of drawings, made in the mid '70's 'the artist first marked a drawing with points, moving clockwise round a rectangle. Lines were then generated by taking numbers, two at a time, at random out of a bag' @Tate

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Paul Prudence

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During trips to India over the years I've collected Rangoli pattern books. Rangolis are chalk drawn geometric designs (usually made by women) based on a procedural system of connecting a matrix of dots. The #Rangoli marks a sacred spot where pooja (prayer) is performed.

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Science and Art Drawing – John Humphrey Spanton [1895] → Textbook on geometry drawing and the principles of map projection. →

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5 years

Studies for Graphic Tectonic series - Josef Albers - 1941 and 1942

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4 months

These weave patterns which foresee pixel experimentation, 'array-aesthetics' and optical designs were created in the early 1900's. Many more can be found at Southern Appalachian Digital Collections | @WCU_Library

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Shoe-Field Map (1982-85) - Sonya Rapoport. ⇢ Dot matrix print on continuous feed computer printout paper. ⇢ This and other incredible works at:

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Orthographic and Isometrical Projection - Ellis A Davidson [1868] →

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5 months

De institutione musica. → 15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music →

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Solo – Décollage Piece for Wolf Vostell Ben Patterson, 1961

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1 year

An untitled catalogue of French Textile samples [1863] via @PublicDomainRev ⇢ Messages sent to the future (past): Anni Albers, Moholy-Nagy, Agnes Martin, Cy Twomby, are you receiving? ⇢

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From the archive: Talysis prints (2008) This series of works, using digital video feedback to generate biomorphic forms, lead me through a garden of forking paths. Basically, a simple recursive system kept me occupied for 5+ years, such was the wealth of variation achievable.

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Going through some of my old journals this eve, I found a reference to this photo I took in 2017: Not a psychogeographic overlay or an asemic poem for cartographers but a sewing pattern from the 1980's found in a relatives old home located in the Pampas. A stitch in time saves..

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There are worlds within worlds... → Drawings from System des Karlsbader Sinters - Franz Uibelakers (1781) →

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2 years

Syρha 5-8 New Series for @versumofficial Inc Editions of 1 #versum

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4 months

Untitled Lawrence Weiner, 1967-68 →

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10 months

Releasing phase 2 of my typewriter drawings, each of which is a combined physical + digital 1/1 edition. Phase 1 has sold out. These pieces (mis)use vintage manual and electronic typewriters as drawing/plotting machines. #objkt ⌨→▦

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Each day a decision tree of endless branching possibilities and yet it always settles on the same old tasks, each day could be endlessly different, and yet.... ⑂ Russisch billard volgens Galton - Hugo de Vries, 1899 ⑂

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The face as labyrinth | Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil @socks_studio

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The EKO ComputeRhythm (1972) was a drum machine that used punched-paper cards to program it. If you were into a data-bending in the 1970s you might have fed it a punch-card made for a Jaquard loom to get a tight fitting Four-on-the-floor. EKO img: @matrixsynth

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Diagrams from The Fourth Dimension – Charles Howard Hinton [1906] | 'Others seek and achieve notoriety; Hinton has achieved almost total obscurity. He is no less mysterious than his work' – JL Borges

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John Whitney’s Digital Harmony is available online #visualmusic #audiovisual #earlycomputerart

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6 years

The star attraction of the #Borges Foundation Musuem in BA has to be the oringial manuscript for The Circular Ruins (The crossed out titled is 'The Temple of Fire'). Precise miniscule cursive annoted with a key of astrological/alchemical-like symbols. And with illustrations.

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