876 by François Van Damme, 2013. h/t @minusbaby.

.  .  .  ” N I G H T  O W L “  .  .  .
adapted for RTTY by K7OOW

The Minnesota Weaver and Drafts and Designs (2006).

Poly Kicks ASCII t-shirt, designed by Heikki Lotvonen. Available here.

Minitel action. Photo by Kevin Driscoll.

Probably by David Palmer, who says he was ASCII-active 1998-2006.

Updated in 2024.

Meg Hitchcock works with text characters from religious books. More here and here.

In my creative work I weave together spiritual traditions by cutting up the text of holy books letter by letter and refiguring them to create passages from other holy books.

(via alma alloro)

Check older posts here and here

Pratisara mantra, 927 CE

Mahāpratyaṅgirā mantra, 971 CE

Both of these are Chinese uses of the (Indian) Siddhaṃ script. h/t: Karl Kempton’s A History of Visual Text Art (p. 57)

Computer keyboard and typewriter jewelry by Tastaturschmuck, who patented this in Germany.

From Betathing‘s ASCII video for The Working Man by Goto80. Full video here.

Zoomorphic Calligraphy

Cross stitch metal alphabet by Kate Blandford (2013).

The three TRS-80 models had no less than 22 different fonts in total (top image), available in Rebecca Bettencourt’s font pack Another Mans Treasure. Shown here are the international fonts from TRS-80 Model 4, and Rebecca’s additions in the last image.

The same web page displayed in different browsers. The so called Acid2 test checks the browser’s support for eg Unicode, HTML and CSS. All these are failed attempts.

Do you pass the Acid2 test?

A Commodore 64 music software, overlayed with loom punch cards used as spray stencils, then faxed. From the performance Fax & Frankering For Folket, Copenhagen, 2011. More images at faxforfolket

By David Palmer, who says he was ASCII-active 1998-2006.


Sinclair ZX81 character set and font, via.

ASCII works by b’ger (Joris Bellenger), 1996.

More b’ger posts

teletextart:

#itaf14 Oh, wow… @RaquelMeyers
itaf2014:

The Mountain is burning
von Filomena
artwork by RaquelMeyers

ITAF in the House Teletext art is in your house right now – we want your impression of it. Send us your pictures for “ITAF in the House”, the International Teletextart Festival (ITAF) in your home. You can upload your pictures here – > itaf2014.tumblr.com Find out more about it:

http://ift.tt/1lN3VOB

Bubble wrap paintings by Bradley Hart. Thanks to Jacob Sikker Remin for the tip.