fallingquietlywithin on Flickr.work in progress

fallingquietlywithin on Flickr.

work in progress

fallingquietlywithin on Flickr.

fallingquietlywithin on Flickr.

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a thing on newhive

Future Potentials for ASCII Art

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read: FUTURE POTENTIONALS FOR ASCII ART
earlier this week, Anders Carlsson and I 
released a web version of a paper we co-authored about a year ago. the paper was 
included in the Computer Art Congress 3, which took place in Paris last Nov.
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we thought it would be a good idea to make the paper available online, in a format that 
perhaps fits a little more closely with the topic, than a print journal (although seeing in print is really cool too).
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to me one of the major benefits of this version of our paper, is that it can link directly to the artists etc
i think that makes a lot more sense. we did some minor edits to the text and added a lot more pics too!!!!!!!
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the paper tries to tie together some threads re:histories of ASCII Art and their relationship to some of the
practices that engage text-based expressions in contemporary visual culture, while considering some future
directions or considerations. when i have more time, i'm definitely interested in writing more about this topic

questions or comments - let us know!!!!

read: FUTURE POTENTIONALS FOR ASCII ART

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gridfont7 - released

proud to say we just released gridfont7
thanks to Fach-Asendorf gallery!!!!!!!!

one of the most important aspects of the project for me:
sentences on conceptual art (in gridfont7)
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if you grab the font and do anything with it - drop me a line!!!!!
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more gridfont5 - thanks

YESSSS!!!
i like            the INternet
thanks to 

Jacob Broms Engbloom

for gently nudging me towards @font-face
i had read about it a long time ago, but never thought about
simple solution and I made a sample for fun... will post more as I make some other fonts - this one is quite old now, and 
i want something different right now

YESSSS!!! i like the INternet thanks to Jacob Broms Engbloom for gently nudging me towards @font-face i had read about it a long time ago, but never thought about simple solution and I made a sample for fun... will post more as I make some other fonts - this one is quite old now, and i want something different right now

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PAGE TO TEST IT OUT

revisiting gridfont5

a couple years ago I was experimenting with font development as a way of creating a special drawing based character set
the idea was that
with a font of this type, you could essentially transform any existing text into a drawing
i made about 6 in total 
experimented with them in layout design software - i have some examples here and there but lazy to find them right now
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also could be applied to a webpage, but I stopped at that idea because the font would have to be 
dl'd in some way.... was reading a little about how they might be embedded.... etc etc etc
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it just dawned on me to try applying the font in a user style sheet
now the goal will be to to develop more of these fonts, then create some sort of add-on for a browser or else 
just distribute them as a font package.... let me know if you are interested in helping out!

Internet Pavilion Interview in gridfont (outdated version)

the actual text can be found at the Biennale Breaks New Ground: Inaugurating the Internet Pavilion interview on the Art21 Blog... for fun since an old post of mine is part of the Wikipedia Art remixes that are part of the Internet Pavilion that is discussed in the interview.

gridfont5 - Moby Dick

Final got a working version in order... downloadable pdf:
gridfont5 - Moby Dick
Eventually this will be printed in book form.

no newz = good newZ

Just finished the first of a series of camouflage inspired code paintings. It's a top secret project the grid has me exploring. How does text look if it is color based as opposed to characters? Can we learn to read color as if it were a book?

a bad image of what that sort of system could look like.