Melvin L. Prueitt Computer Graphics: 118 Computer-generated Designs, 1975

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Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans Looking at Joyce's language and semantic invention in Finnegans Wake as linguistic map of latent space. https://latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

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'Speculative Drawing: 2011 - 2014' - by Armen Avanessian and Andreas Töpfer Presenting fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011. "Speculative Drawing does not provide a shortcut to the theories presented; it does not aim to build a representational relationship between a pictorially correct understanding and a correlative conceptual thought. Instead, the drawings provide an occasion to think about thinking—a speculative thinking and writing in concept and through images." Sternberg Press 2014, 14.5×21 cm, 320 pages, illustrated throughout, clothbound hardcover https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/speculative-drawing-2011-2014/

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Guy Debord and Asger Jorn Mémoires, 1959 Famously wrapped in a détournement of sandpaper to rub any books near to it up the wrong way.

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The dystopian smart house in JG Ballard's The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (collected in Vermilion Sands) plays back the emotive memories of its former owners to its new ones. It's Bachelard's Poetics of Space deformed. Rather than personally recalled, the poetics are transmitted by the resonant dysmorphia of villa's architectural features.

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FUKT - the sound issue (nr 23)

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FUKT #23 – The Sound Issue https://www.fuktmagazine.com/shop/23 2025/26 "Graphic scores, musical structures to resonance, vibration, and listening, from artists who turn sound into image and image into sound. Some works follow the pulse of music, others trace the invisible currents of electromagnetic fields, the voices of whales, or the inner sound of thought and memory." Can't wait to see @v3ga's work in this release * ISBN 978-3-9820098-6-5 23 x 16,5 cm, 224 pages, softcover with relief varnish

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Magic Squares & Cubes - W.S Andrews [1960] I think this book is already in /the-library

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Print Punch: Artefacts From The Punch Card Era - by Steven E Jones, Sandra Rendgen and John L Walters "Print Punch returns to the heyday of the punch card — to a time when you could touch (and punch) data. The aesthetics of this early move towards automation represent a unique moment in our history, when we designed for machines instead of human beings. Rigorous constraints, inherent in punch card technology, unwittingly birthed a coherent design language: rhythm in grids, punched absences and presences, and the patterns in them dancing to their own machine logic." 208 pages Laser cut hardback 240x310mm Limited to 700 copies ISBN: 9781916412132 https://patrickfry.co.uk/printpunch

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The Internet Phonebook : "An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators." https://internetphonebook.net/ Not the usual art book, but still, probably a good book to have. I just ordered mine as I missed the first sale :-)

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'Forty-Four Esolangs' -- an impressive collection of Daniel Temkin’s many approaches to esoteric programming languages danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/ Img: 'Entropy' - A language where data decays the more it's used; the programmer has a short time to get their point across to the user before the program fades into entropy. Paperback September 23, 2025 The MIT Press 136 pp., 6 x 9 in, 19 b&w illus.

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Irma Boom: Book Manifest, 2022 Irma Boom presents her vision on the essence, meaning and relevance of the book. With this 1000-page book, Irma Boom aims to inspire and encourage the new generation of designers to experiment, in order to ensure the book's position for the future.

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No Finish Line describes Nike’s culture of innovation via the athletes, designers, and scientists at its cutting edge. The layout has tinges of The Medium is the Massage.

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Rosaire Appel Voices Pending, 2023 I've been collecting Rosaire Appel's affordable artist books for some time and love her work. She specialises in a lively take on asemic writing and comic book abstraction. *** 'Voices Pending is a full-color anthology of abstract comics by Rosaire Appel. Comics imply talk, not only noise-talk but silences and gestures. Combinations of reading and looking create an inherent tension even in traditional comics, and talk, as it moves through rooms and country-sides is sequential. But: understanding is a moving target. Rosaire Appel lives and works in New York. Her field is abstract visual language. She writes: "I bridge the gap between verbal writing and its visual counterparts through non-symbolic mark-making and asemic writing. Asemic writing looks like writing but has no semantic value. It is ancient as well as contemporary. ' More impressions in the comments.

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