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Ark Codex +_ 0 is an authorless book object of art & text inked on pre-existing book pages & reformulated to induce an abstracted retelling of Noah's fabled tale. Ark Codex speaks for itself - a self-contained archeological archive of language for the sake of language, an artifact collaged of image & text mined from unspecified or unknown origins: deconstructed, replicated, reappropriated, cut-up, traced, erased, distressed, deterritorialized, rubbed, stained, repurposed, then reconstituted & expressed in a feedback loop driven by the same chance operations that guide natural selection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The found text derives from dictionaries and encyclopedias. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Marvin Sackner sent Priddle a copy of an article that appeared in The Economist magazine in 2002 dealing with his latest invention, the AT 101. The article was entitled, "Shaken but not Stirred." Priddle's overprinting gives an appearance of shaking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Only the cover of this book by Fernando De Rojas of a classic drama has been appropriated by Rosen. On the top half of the cover, there is a list of words in Spanish and on the bottom half, their English counterparts. The content seems like automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Part of the postcard-correction (since 1977) series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gloor's "State Exam" provides a cross section of the language around the turn of the century, as it arises in advertising for companies and institutions, in journalism and in the literature, uses, and passes away. The texts consist of found objects arranged. They have grown by combining, citation and collages. Beat Gloor deals with the language, the words and the letters. "I have written down: from newspapers and on television, by old masters and young savages, with colleagues and companies on the Internet and at the carnival, short, with strangers and with myself» -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.