Look, it’s a demoscene thing!
Mantras and Meditations by Meg Hitchcock, ca 2011.
‘Grace Triptych’ by Keira Rathbone, 2011.
Peter Wegner’s split flap piece at the Stanford business school, 2011. A similar thing (mechanical movement, tactile noise) is Daniel Rozin’s wooden mirror.
ASCII for LulzSec, a hacker group that only existed for a few weeks, but made some very high profile hacks. Wikipedia
Yakkuru posted by asciiart, 2011.
Giraffe posted by asciiart in 2011.