Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Crypt of Civilization

The Crypt of Civilization is an airtight chamber at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta containing books, records, consumer goods and other artifacts. It is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 C.E.. On May 25, 1940, Jacobs and Peters sealed … Continue reading

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Today I Die

Today I Die is another poetic text-and-animation game from Daniel Benmergui.

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Tenori-on

Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group, Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. It consists of a screen, held in the hands, of … Continue reading

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Khronos Projector

From Henri Bergson’s The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics: …let us imagine an infinitely small piece of elastic, contracted, if that were possible, to a mathematical point. Let us draw it out gradually in such a way as to … Continue reading

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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Rabbit holes, world building and fictional encyclopediae: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. I I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in … Continue reading

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