Fred Eerdekens

mhmmmhm
2002
Artificial trees, 2 light projectors

TYPOTOPO

"This site represents the space where typography and topography overlap: explorations of type in virtual environments, experiments in mapping, and innovations in textual display. TYPOTOPO examines how the act of reading evolves when letters and words, viewed both as text and image, are placed in interactive and dynamic environments. TYPOTOPO explores typographic information spaces and the possibilities for playful, expressive letterforms."

28 March 1997 -- Sean Cubitt --
HYPERMETRICS: The co-evolution of voice and machine from typewriter to hypertext

"The book is dead, as God died: the codex of lyric verse did not need to be killed. All lyric now is elegaic."

chronotext.org

"chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments

exploring the relation between text, space and time"

Mobile text: 5 reasons (MIT, 1978)

"Why should text move or change? We see at least five reasons: to convey information that itself is changing, to pace the observer, to save “real-estate”, to amplify, and to be attention getting."

Nicholas Negroponte, Richard Bolt and Muriel Cooper. Books without Pages. Proposal from the Architecture Machine Group, MIT to the Office of Information, Science and Technology, NSF. Collection of David Small[MSc Thesis 1999, "Rethinking the Book", p.24]. 1978.

Micahel Denhoff : Textbilder

"Text becomes picture."

Barbara Kruger

Robert Bowen : Textscapes

Bowen: "All the images have one thing in common: they are created with typographical symbols and they function both as pictures and as texts. Ultimately for me they are virtual images of virtual things."
[Source: Wands, B. (2006). Art of the Digital Age. London: Thames & Hudson. ]

nathalie stephens

No text is sacred. Nothing is ever for real. The earth shifts beneath our feet. We are walking in circles looking again and again at the same thing.