Earlier this week Evelyn Eastmond showed me the exhibition catalog for the De Cordova Museum’s 2011 exhibition Drawing With Code, an impressive collection of early computer-generated artwork. Printed in the format of punch cards, the catalog makes for a beautiful object in and of itself—I scanned one of the pages to add to a personal archive, and ran the page through OCR while I was at it.
The result made for some interesting digital noise: a computer’s reading of a designer’s response to an art show of early algorithmically-assisted artwork.
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