QWERTY Keyboard Art by Sarah Frost (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 Art Signatures In The Wild or: How I Downloaded The Internet And Learned How Much One Million Is by Victor Widell, 2012. A script that scans the internet for ASCII art.
Commodore 64 disk directory art (dir art). Wildfire [1997] by Coma, Krestology 100% [1996] by Crest, Arcanum [2000] by Xenon, Revolved [2013] by TRIAD, +H2K [2000] by Plush, and Deus Ex Machina [2000] by Crest, Oxyron
The Icelandic Vegvísir (wayfinder) is a magical stave that helps you find your way home through rough weather. Oldest known example is from 1860.
Fuck yourself with your logic / #KYBDslöjd Noise my TxT with Alexandra Nilsson #teletext #typewriter #C64 #PETSCII #cassette live performance by rakelmeyers
Web-based Lite-Brite experiment by Ty Wilkins, 2009.
Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.
CTRL+C & CTRL+V : 2009-07-22 12:29
Russian postmen fix an error caused by an ASCII-illiterate e-mail client in France. New aesthetic, anyone?
This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail. Her e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1) The original message was in KOI8-R.
The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully. Some of the correct characters (red) were written above the wrong ones (black).
Encoding problems are usually called Mojibake (from Japanese) but other languages refer to it as monkey’s code, letter salad, chaotic code and even little bushes. Read more at Wikipedia.
Makes you wonder how common this ‘mojibake literacy’ is among postmen…
Like attracts like by the Fluxus poet Emmett Williams, 1958. See his Selected Shorter Poems (1950-1970), and also UbuWeb.
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Back to Nature by Bob Carr, 1982. This is the C64-version of the game that he released for the PET in 1980.