The Engine of Laputa

The Engine of Laputa

‘The Engine of Laputa’ by Christian Bök constitutes a handwritten replication of a tablet, illustrated by Lemuel Gulliver in his second edition of Book 3 from ‘Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World’ (1726). Gulliver visits the domain of Laputa, where an...
Bibliomechanics

Bibliomechanics

Bibliomechanics is “bookish artware,” consisting of 27 Rubik’s cubes, stacked together into a block (3 × 3 × 3) so as to create the kind of pataphysical writing-machine described by Jonathan Swift in The Voyage to Laputa — “a project for improving speculative...
FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM (Sarah Ridgley)

FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM (Sarah Ridgley)

Christian Bök has prompted Sudowrite to compose ten lines of poetry, each line derived from the title of a painting in the series, ‘Fifty Days at Iliam’ by Cy Twombly. Sarah Ridgley has then used her own algorithm to repeat each of these outputs in the...
FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM

FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM

Christian Bök has prompted Sudowrite to compose ten lines of poetry, each line derived from the title of a painting in the series, ‘Fifty Days at Iliam’ by Cy Twombly. Sarah Ridgley has then used her own algorithm to repeat each of these outputs in the...
YOU MUST FIRST BREAK A MOUNTAIN TO BECOME A GOD

YOU MUST FIRST BREAK A MOUNTAIN TO BECOME A GOD

Christian Bök has prompted Sudowrite to compose ten lines of poetry, each line derived from the title of a painting in the series, ‘Fifty Days at Iliam’ by Cy Twombly. Sarah Ridgley has then used her own algorithm to repeat each of these outputs in the...