Archive for the ‘text’ Category
Fred Eerdekens mhmmmhm 2002 Artificial trees, 2…
May 2, 2007
TYPOTOPO "This site represents the space where…
April 16, 2007
“This site represents the space where typography and topography overlap: explorations of type in virtual environments, experiments in mapping, and innovations in textual display. TYPOTOPO examines how the act of reading evolves when letters and words, viewed both as text and image, are placed in interactive and dynamic environments. TYPOTOPO explores typographic information spaces and the possibilities for playful, expressive letterforms.”
28 March 1997 — Sean Cubitt — HYPERMETRICS: The…
April 3, 2007HYPERMETRICS: The co-evolution of voice and machine from typewriter to hypertext
“The book is dead, as God died: the codex of lyric verse did not need to be killed. All lyric now is elegaic.”
chronotext.org "chronotext is a growing collection…
April 2, 2007
Mobile text: 5 reasons (MIT, 1978)
March 5, 2007“Why should text move or change? We see at least five reasons: to convey information that itself is changing, to pace the observer, to save “real-estate”, to amplify, and to be attention getting.”
Nicholas Negroponte, Richard Bolt and Muriel Cooper. Books without Pages. Proposal from the Architecture Machine Group, MIT to the Office of Information, Science and Technology, NSF. Collection of David Small[MSc Thesis 1999, "Rethinking the Book", p.24]. 1978.
Micahel Denhoff : Textbilder "Text becomes pictur…
February 19, 2007
“Text becomes picture.”
Barbara Kruger
February 7, 2007
Robert Bowen : Textscapes Bowen: "All the images …
February 7, 2007Robert Bowen : Textscapes
Bowen: “All the images have one thing in common: they are created with typographical symbols and they function both as pictures and as texts. Ultimately for me they are virtual images of virtual things.”
[Source: Wands, B. (2006). Art of the Digital Age. London: Thames & Hudson. ]
nathalie stephensNo text is sacred. Nothing is eve…
November 17, 2006No text is sacred. Nothing is ever for real. The earth shifts beneath our feet. We are walking in circles looking again and again at the same thing.
