Archive for the ‘code’ Category
the 3rd International Prize Ciutat de Vinaròs on D…
April 9, 2007
Random Etc.
March 29, 2007Ebon Fisher’s NervePool
February 22, 2007
Subversion "What makes the Subversion repository …
February 17, 2007Subversion
“What makes the Subversion repository special is that it remembers every change ever written to it: every change to every file, and even changes to the directory tree itself, such as the addition, deletion, and rearrangement of files and directories.”
Levitated :: Jared Tarbell
February 13, 2007
Piet Zwart Institute – Words Made Flesh WORDS MADE…
November 17, 2006Piet Zwart Institute – Words Made Flesh
WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
Florian Cramer
A b s t r a c t: Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These speculations in turn inscribe themselves into the technology. Since even the most simple formalism requires symbols with which it can be expressed, and symbols have cultural connotations, any code is loaded with meaning. This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing both the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical, and words are made flesh.
