📖 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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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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💖 I've pre-ordered LAN Party's first book: NPCs on Metalabel by @benoit-tokyo @benna 💖 'Non-Playable Characters' is a collection of essays, short stories, interviews, and visuals that explores the figure of the NPC as a cultural symbol, internet trope, social mirror, and conceptual vessel. ★ PRE-ORDER NOW. Shipping January ★ 🔗🔻

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A collection of three posts you've seen here (with revisions) and an artwork by the great @evelyn0. https://lonewick.substack.com/p/3-short-observations-from-my-inner

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SPEAK DATA Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers ( by Giorgia Lupi and Phillip Cox, 2025) https://giorgialupi.com/publications "SPEAK DATA brings together years of thinking around data as a language. Not just a tool for measurement, but a way to understand who we are, how we connect, and how we make sense of the world.⁣⁣ It’s about what becomes visible when we stop treating data as cold and distant, and instead use it to ask questions and tell stories that are deeply human.⁣⁣ "

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A Classic from 1979 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.” Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext(e) https://www.semiotexte.com/politics-of-the-very-worst

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New Book ‘Bali Flyers’ presents over 130 pages of rave and event flyers collected in Bali, Indonesia between 1985 and 2002. ↪️ lockbooks net

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a present for my daughter’s birthday… [original title: “Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism”]

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Pierre Soulages

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

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"Output – An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023" (Edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, 2024) . "An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT."

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Last week was special because we received the prototype of our First Issue of SeekeR And we're SHOCKED by the print quality !!! It's a prototype. It still needs cutting, laminating, binding, etc. But this preview makes us more than confident in the level of piece we want to present 📖 🖼️

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Drawing with Computers, by Mark Wilson, 1985 Magnificently organized book on early computer graphics by plotter legend Mark Wilson. Images and link below.

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