ASCII-WM 2006 was a live ASCII-broadcast of the world cup in soccer. It was accessed about 15 million times – only via telnet. Apart from converting video to ASCII, it used the live commentary from Austrian TV, translated it to English with Babelfish, and put it in the stream.
The final matches were broadcast on local TV in Vienna with a speech synthesis reading the babelfishy commentary (see bottom image).
All pics via ascii-wm.net
Stephansdom aka St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna) from 1160. The roof is 111 metres (361 ft) long, and covered by 230,000 glazed tiles.
Morse code, Punched card recording medium, Binary numeral system, Baudot code and dot matrix printer for the TM cover design by Heinrich Fleischhacker (1975).
Pietro (de) Saga was the pseudonym of an early Austrian typewriter artist, who Andrew Belsey informed us about. Since there’s so little info abot her online, we thought we’d post his explanation about her here:
There is no agreement about the real name and dates of Pietro Saga (sometimes Pietro de Saga). Her real name is usually stated to be Stefi Kiesler, but her first name sometimes appears as Stefani, Stefanie, Stephani, Steffi, etc. Her original surname was Fritsch or Frischer. Her dates are given as 1896-1965, 1897-1963 or 1900-1965.In 1920 she married the Austrian architect and designer Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965), and they were involved in European avant-garde art movements, such as De Stijl. In 1926 they emigrated to the USA, and lived thereafter in New York, where they were part of the modern art scene. She was also a librarian in the New York Public Library.
Thanks to Andrew Belsey for the De Stijl cover. Stefi Kiesler’s typewriter art originals are from page 371 here, from Yale University’s art collection.
pxl is an app by Rainier Kohlberger from 2012 that converts photos to textmodey graphics, trixels, and other modes. More screens here.
