American Wildlife, a mosaic mural in the lobby of the new Cincinnati Federal Building. Made by Charley Harper in 1964.
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Shape and Structure (1969) and Departure from Merida (1973) by Carl Andre.
By Charles R Cannoni. Made in the 1930s and 40s. The men are Julius Nelson (his teacher in art typing) and Clark Gable (including his autograph).
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ZeroVision typing ANSI in PabloDraw, 2008.
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Moby Dick works by Justin Quinn, 2006-2011. Quinn spent 5 years re-writing full chapters of Moby Dick only using the letter E. Volume I arranges the text like the book, while Volume II, pictured here, shapes the text more freely.
More photos available on his Flickr. (Post updated 2024)
These proto-emoticons were published in the satirical magazine Puck on 30 March, 1881. Although often described as the first emoticons, they seem to be a rip-off of a Polish magazine from just a few weeks earlier.
Read more or see more emoticons from the 1800’s.
Post updated in 2024.
Poem Field #7 by Stanley VanDerBeek and Kenneth C. Knowlton, 1968. Text-based computer animation made in Bell Labs.
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Nude by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. Contrary to popular belief, it does not use ASCII characters but various pictograms. In 1967 the image was printed in The New York Times, and it was exhibited at one of the earliest computer art exhibitions, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 1968.
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