The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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Overclocked: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art Lock Books https://lockbooks.net/products/overclocked-an-archive-of-graphics-card-box-art

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I’ve just started reading A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett. Right from the first pages, the book raises an interesting question: what truly defines intelligence? Not just artificial, but human — this complex mix of creativity, adaptation, and learning. I’m curious to see how the author connects all of this to the future of machines (and ours).

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Clinton G Gilroy, from The Art of Weaving, by Hand and Power: with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times. 1844.

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George Field, Definitive or Fundamental Scale of Colours. From Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments, and of their powers in painting. 1835.

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Illustration by Daniel Liévano From the collector’s edition of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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Concrete Poetry: A World View. Ed Mary Ellen Solt (1968) A very nicely scanned PDF of a classic book. Scroll to the latter half of the PDF for the artworks. https://monoskop.org/images/5/5d/Solt_Mary_Ellen_ed_Concrete_Poetry_A_World_View_1970.pdf

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A new LAN PARTY newsletter on Art and Technology is coming pretty soon💫 @benna @benoit-tokyo are the best, subscribe on substack, @hypersub or both!! 🤓 🤓 🤓 🤓 lanpartycuratorial.substack.com

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Book of Space (2009), project of Johan Hybschmann, a Bratlett graduate. I first saw this project when I started my master studies in architecture at ETH Zürich the same year. It left a profound impression on me. I wanted to see the world through these eyes. Still learning...

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The Way of the Code by Rick Rubin, when Lao Tzu and ClaudeAI reunite in an amazing generative art experimentation ! https://www.thewayofcode.com/

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As a zero chill book nerd I’m delighted for /the-library thanks @vortac for the invite ☀️ Osamu Sato’s The Art of Computer Designing book was featured in Zach Lieberman’s recent code art talk in Seoul. Curious who’s read it?

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Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet – Tate Catalogue, 2024 I would say a fairly essential edition to the library of anyone interested generative art, optical, kinetic and programmed art. I enjoyed the show, which which drew a wide arc and gave some lesser known figures and movements the recognition they deserved. The (permutational) poet and calligrapher Brion Gysin was one and the movement/magazine Radical Software being another. As usual some more impressions below.

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I can't vouch for the content of this design journal (yet) but i can vouch for the cover. 'Journal of the Ulm School for Design was published from 1958–1968 in 14 issues (21 numbers). This international journal provided a comprehensive account of the theoretical, rational and practical curriculum at one of Europe’s most influential design schools since the Bauhaus' - Monoskop PDF's of every issue can be found at good old Monoskop https://monoskop.org/Ulm

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