Title Book of Sand

Year: 2019

Credit: DSS

Abstract

Can we be sure 'reading' remains an exclusively human activity?

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Book of Sand


Working with a custom-coded, automated-art-system of their own devising, Australian digital artists Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato have now archived a literary corpus for future study in what they have called The Library of Nonhuman Books. Yet it remains uncertain whether human scholars will visit Donnachie's and Simoniato's virtual library. Seeing as how "there are no human ‘typewriters’ now, how can we be sure there will still be human ‘readers’ in the future?" –from the Electronic Literature Review, 2020

Full-text available here soon. Meanwhile please see: https://doi.org/10.7273/chg4-cx05


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Acknowledgements

All artworks and texts, unless otherwise stated, are published courtesy the artists, 'Donnachie, Simionato & Sons' (2024). Visual and textual materials on this site may only be reproduced for scholarly purposes and with citations. Please forward all enquiries to email@unknowing.cc

Many of the automated-art-systems in the CCU utilise open-source software and hardware which would not exist without the contribution of their respective communities. Special thanks to Processing (Java and Javascript); arduino (C++) and Raspberry Pi systems; Python; Inkscape.



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