Tag Archives: poetry

Untitled by Bengt Emil Johnson (1963)

Word processor art by Renée Farrar, 2014. Made in MS Word for a final project of a media archaeology course. Also see the Media Archaeology Lab.

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Beethoven Today by Bob Cobbing, 1970. From the book Typewriter Art, edited by Alan Riddell 1975.

What seems to be a smiley from 1648 (top image), written by the poet Robert Herrick, is most likely not. The same book contained more smilies (bottom image) that indicate that it’s not supposed to be read as an emoticon. See Slate’s article for more examples and information.

From SCORE 4 by Karl Kempton & Loris Essary, 1984.

More Kempton @ text-mode.

Typewriter works by Andrew Topel

By Hrabanus Maurus in the 800s, printed in 1503.

Paris, mai 1924 (?) by Man Ray, 1924.

Sample page from blewointment magazine 1967 featuring poems by Earle Birney and David Frith as well as event listings for Alan Neil Trio and an ad for a bpNichol book.