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Paul Prudence

@paul-prudence #307224

Artist/Writer /the-library /geoblocks ✷ https://linktr.ee/paulprudence ✷ Live: ISO/IEC 10646 ⟶ https://verse.works/series/iso-iec-10646-by-paul-prudence
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Barbara Tetenbaum & Julie Chen
Glimpse, 2011
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/bdd3b318-5dcb-4493-264d-b42e213d8700/original
'Absence of a signal should never be used as a signal.' ~ Julian Bigelow

Bigelow was the engineer of the MANIAC (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model I), 1952. The MANIAC was designed by John von Neumann. It's first task was to perform precise and extensive calculations of the thermonuclear process.

A signal that eventually created an absence.
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Sol LeWitt
Arcs, Circles, Grids, 1972

This one is new to me. I like the fact that although it appears as a complex interference pattern of lines and geometric shapes it retains a monolithic quality.
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Eduarda Emilia Maino (who became Dadamaino following an error in the catalogue for an exhibition in the Netherlands in 1961)
Costellazione, 1981
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So I fell down a bit of a retro computing rabbit hole today after @stc started a quote-thread in /abandonware about the first computer we learned to code on. During some related research on early computers I came across this handsome fellow today.

The Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

https://www.ibm.com/history/selective-sequence-calculator
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The EAI PACE TR-48 analogue computer.

Tell me, who does not like the look of a computer that resembles the close kin of a modular synthesiser such as the the Arp 2500?
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I remember pouring over a copied manual during a school lunch break shortly after my first contact with this machine. I was dazed by the hermetic inscriptions contained within it and which clearly gave me access to a form of intelligible magic. Nothing will ever compare to those first encounters with computing and programming ever again.

https://vt100.net/rm/docs/380zsys.pdf
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At school, the RM 380Z, at home the ZX Spectrum, both at around the same time, so not exactly sure which one was the first.
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⚫️⚪️ — 24 #monochrome-monday

Hydroacoustic Study (fragment) , AV Performance. 2006.
Generative video: Paul Prudence. Sound: Francisco Lopez.

This work was a collaboration piece with the sound artist Francisco Lopez and was iterated over many different versions for live performance at media arts festivals in the late 00's. A version was also released on Richard Chartier's LINE Label as a DVD. I have many video fragments and this one is the earliest. This piece was created at a time when live sound analysis was all the rage. It was made in VVVV and used Francisco's incoming sound to modulate the video. We played this loud on big screens, it was noisy and visceral. We wanted to singe the audiences eyelashes. With all the shit going on in this world right now, I feel like I could easily start making this kind of work again as a form of release as a counterpoint to my quieter work.
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Observations of The Zodiacal Light

From Narrative of the Expedition to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854 @britishlibrary

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11047872926/in/album-72157638850077096/
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British Library digitised image from page 267 of "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry ... by order of the Government of the

Image taken from: Title: "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry ... by order of the Government of the United States. Compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers ... by F. L. Hawks, etc [With plates, including maps.]" Author(s): Hawks, Francis Lister [person] ; Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10057.f.22" Page: 267 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: Washington (United States of America) Date of publication: 1856 Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 3 volumes (4°) Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 001622745 (physical copy) and 014812941 (digitised copy) (numbers are British Library identifiers) Other links related to this image: - View this image as a scanned publication on the British Library’s online viewer (you can download the image, selected pages or the whole book) - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library Other links related to this publication: - View all the illustrations found in this publication - View all the illustrations in publications from the same year (1856) - Download the Optical Character Recognised (OCR) derived text for this publication as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. You can help support our mission to continue making our collection accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment, by donating on the British Library supporter webpage here. Thank you for supporting the British Library.

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Bismuth Landscape

Latest addition to my Microscapes collection on @objktcom at an accessible 8tz.

https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1941UNPi2SSama3ZS7WaFWFhrTN1gXcHVb/19
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Tou (Emptiness as Form)

Happy to be included in "Absence" an exhibition organised by ACTZ - Art Commissions on @objktcom and curated by @rdtothemoon. This is a 1/1 in auction for 48hrs. The auction has been kicked off.

https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1Gax6ccBcGkDHeoUFFzqhEdfry3WA5xKMi/29
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Gianpaolo Pagni,
LETTURE STENOGRAFICHE, 2024
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