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Cracking the Agrippa Code
Cracking the Agrippa Code nodalpoint: n 1992 cyberpunk author William Gibson wrote a short poem called Agrippa (a book of the dead) that tells about memory, loss, nature and mechanism, all framed by a Kodak photo album. The poem was bundled into a Mac System 7 application and included on a 3.5” diskette in the back of…
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blech: IKB 79 by Yves Klein from the Tate Collection. From their text summary: IKB 79 was one of nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Yves Klein made during his short life. Klein did not give titles to these works but after his death in 1962, his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay numbered all the known blue monochromes…
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“Stephen King’s Wang,” a cheeky reference to that best-selling novelist’s first computer, bought in the early 1980s. A Literary History of Word Processing – NYTimes.com
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Myhrvold & Swade Discuss Babbage’s Difference Engine | Beyond The Beyond
Myhrvold & Swade Discuss Babbage’s Difference Engine | Beyond The Beyond Babbage designed a machine that would calculate by steam, without the mistakes of calculations done by hand, in the 1840s. This is computer history, and is important for reflective practitioners of Electronic and Digital Media Arts & Design.