[Quick caveat for me and some others. We're critting jpegs and text--most of us haven't seen these pieces. OK, with that out of the way...]
Agreed that the backstory about seeking persistence in the face of transient technology adds to the work. Problem is it may not be entirely true in this case:
(from my VVork link above): Steven Read wrote a software program in Apple II Integer Basic that displays an image on the monitor’s screen. Then he ran the program continuously for about 6 months. The software image was eventually burned into the screen because the internal phosphor compounds which emit light lost their luminosity and left behind a ghostly trace. The 'please wait' text is actually an image which took over 1000 lines of software code to create. The old Apple II operating systems (DOS 3.x, ProDOS, etc.) did not come with any font facilities, if you wanted a font you had to code it from scratch. So the software artifact being preserved (Apple II fonts) is not actually something anyone used on a regular basis, it had to be custom crafted for this piece. See my earlier post on "reenacting the unenacted."
I'm continuing to be a pill, but I think I have a point here.
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Agreed that the backstory about seeking persistence in the face of transient technology adds to the work. Problem is it may not be entirely true in this case:
So the software artifact being preserved (Apple II fonts) is not actually something anyone used on a regular basis, it had to be custom crafted for this piece. See my earlier post on "reenacting the unenacted."
I'm continuing to be a pill, but I think I have a point here.
- tom moody 3-30-2007 2:53 am