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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.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946) is a writer, artist and teacher born in Sudbury in the United Kingdom. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Working with computers since the middle 1960s, he was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and "state of the art" technology which might merely produce "state of the technology" art. After showing interactive artworks at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983 he was invited by the French Ministry of Culture to intervene in art education, and was later appointed to a teaching post in the École nationale supérieure d'art (national art school) in Bourges. In the UK in 1979, Smith wrote 'Jackson', one of the first digital painting programs, for the Research Machines 380Z computer, software which was distributed by the Ministry of Education and widely used in schools and elsewhere. The BBC published his art software for the BBC Micro. He has been cited as one of the...

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

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

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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.

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...

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This book documents performances and exhibitions of Station Mir. This was was a multimedia research and creative laboratory, created by David Dronet and Stephano Zanini in 1994, which enabled artists and technicians to develop personal research projects. Joel Hubaut added drawings to this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages consist of search engine printouts of visual poetry on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Additional names involved: deAraujo A ; Figallo T ; Smith WJ ; Lora-Totino A ; Bohn W.