Meditation no.1 by Emmett Williams, 1958. Also see Wikipedia.
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Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.
Fisches Nachtgesang by Christian Morgenstern. Published in Galgenlieder, 1905.
The title translates to “Fish’s Nightsong”. The poem consists of alternating lines of macrons and breves, the marks of scansion in Latin and Greek poetry, reimagined as both the shimmering scales of a sleeping fish and musical notations.
– Michael Cantor, 2012
The Fall of the Tower of Babel by John Furnival, 1964.
John Furnival’s The Fall of the Tower of Babel is one of the early classics of concrete poetry and exists in many versions. It depicts the Biblical story of the splintering of the World’s languages as a vision of nuclear apocalypse.
Updated in 2024, with help from this.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1);: GOTO 10 (2012)
Piece of code in the Commodore 64 manual, used in a small digital art show called ‘Codings’ at the Pace Digital Gallery, New York, which looks at code, text and digital art:
A 3-line version of this program appeared in the original Commodore 64 User’s guide:
10 PRINT “{CLR/HOME}
20 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)
30 GOTO 20This is one of many short basic programs, for this and other computers, that have been entered by users seeking to puzzle their friends, to learn more about computing, and to see aesthetically pleasing output.
You can find out more about the show here
[sad confession – I never knew there was an easy bit of code to do this on a Commodore … I discovered the effect myself, but did it manually, typing the two characters myself at random …]
This led to the 10print book.
1001 ways to live without working by Tuli Kupferberg (1961).
