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Computer art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

[Basta!], 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16148-16491
Scope and Contents

A ghost-like, computer manipulated, red colored photograph of a woman is in the center of a border of handwritten phrases e.g., insoportable pesar (insupportable sorrow), un verdadero silencio se impone (a veritable silence asserts itself), suicidio (suicide). The handwritten phrases around the border were printed with computer generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Computer Dances / Pike, Jennifer, aka Jennifer Cobbing., 1995

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-61891-10004362

Computer Graphic Score No.8 / Cobbing, Bob; Millis B., 1986

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17735-18104
Scope and Contents

Cobbing notes that this piece was performed by the new vocal group "Alphonso" consisting of Bob Cobbing and Bill Millis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Gemma Three: White Truth Black, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-28096-29255
Scope and Contents

The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

[Head of a Woman] , 1994

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-16146-16489
Scope and Contents

The portrait of the woman in black & white has been overlaid by computer generated repetitious texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Paralengua, 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16145-16488
Scope and Contents

Consists of four computer portraits in red and black including one of Doctorovich himself composed with the word paralengua in various typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing, 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-54632-990079
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge.Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker's contention that humanists must play a role in...
Dates: 2009