Index

.walk, 70

3dwm (software), 41

Abulafia, Abraham, 3, 30, 31, 46, 47, 50

Acid (software), 83

Adobe (company), 83

Adobe Illustrator (software), 83

Adorno, Theodor W., 81

aesthetics, 18, 20, 26, 65, 66, 68, 71, 74, 77, 81, 83, 86, 91, 96, 110, 111, 114

al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa, 119

ALAMO, 89

Albers, Josef, 68

Alciatus, Andreas, 20

aleatory, 88, 101

Algol (programming language), 92

algorithm, 6, 7, 15, 21, 23–25, 29, 30, 36, 37, 42, 44, 46, 48, 51–53, 55, 56, 63, 64, 67, 71–84, 88–91, 101–104, 106–111, 113, 119–123

Alinei, Mario, 71

Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 37, 38, 43, 61

Amiga (operating system), 119

anarchism, 75, 77, 116

Andreae, Johann Valentin, 38, 49, 50, 58, 59

Anger, Kenneth, 14

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 80

Apple Macintosh (operating system), 39, 41, 73, 85

Apple Newton, 5

architecture, 10, 63, 65, 122

Aristophanes, 10

Aristotle; Aristotelian, 22, 27, 57

Arnaud, No ël, 92

Art and Language, 67

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), 36, 53, 70, 72, 81, 85, 86, 91, 102–106, 110, 123

artificial life, 85

ASCII art, 96, 110

assembly (programming language), 36

AT&T (company), 65

Atari (company), 119

Athenaios, 40, 43

Auto-Illustrator (software), 83, 84

avant-garde, 24, 65, 66, 87

Böhme, Jakob, 46

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 24, 48, 73

Band-in-a-Box (software), 83

Barthes, Roland, 78

BASIC (programming language), 31

Baudelaire, Charles, 69

Bauhaus, 63, 65, 68, 83

Beatles, 14

Bell Labs, 65

Benjamin, Walter, 69

Bense, Max, 65–72, 85, 88–91, 109, 110, 123

Bible, 13, 32, 45

Bill, Max, 63, 68

BIOS, 121

Blade Runner (film), 106

bloatware, 7

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, 18, 19

Bond, James, 6

Borges, Jorge Luis, 59–62, 64, 73, 102

Boulez, Pierre, 24, 77

Boyle, Robert, 58

Bremer, Claus, 64

Breton, André, 69, 87

Brown, Earle, 75

Bruno, Giordano, 37, 52

Burke, Edmund, 12

Burnham, Jack, 67, 119, 120

Burroughs, William S., 15–18, 26, 46, 47, 50, 75, 77, 88, 89, 115, 123

BYTE (computer magazine), 72

C (programming language), 75, 120

Cage, John, 7, 75–78, 84, 88, 101, 115, 123

Calvino, Italo, 71, 78, 79, 85, 90, 91, 109

Campanella, Tommaso, 38, 50, 58

Cardew, Cornelius, 25

Carroll, Lewis, 11, 12

Cathars, 6

Caulfield, Patricia, 81

cellular automata, 55

chaos, 10, 26, 30, 74, 77, 79, 123

chat roboter, 70

Chomsky, Noam, 101

Cobra (group), 92

codework, 97

codeworks, 11, 96–99, 101, 102, 108, 112, 113, 116, 117, 119, 123

Collège de Pataphysique, 87, 89, 92

combination, 29, 30, 36, 37, 44, 51, 52, 79, 85, 87, 115

combinatorics, 43, 46, 57, 60–62, 78–80, 89–91, 101–103

Comenius, Jan Amos, 38, 39, 41, 49, 50, 59

concrete poetry, 63–66, 68, 101, 109

Conrad, Tony, 16

constellation, 62–65

constraint, 43, 47, 88–92, 96, 111, 123

Conway’s Game of Life, 55, 56

Conway, John Horton, 56

Cosic, Vuc, 110

CPU, 48, 121

Cronenberg, David, 47, 116

Crowley, Aleister, 14–16, 46, 113, 114

cryptography, 6, 7

Culver, Andrew, 75, 76

cut-ups, 10, 15–17, 68, 75, 77, 78, 88, 101, 115, 123

cybernetics, 67, 68, 90, 91, 111, 114, 120

cyberpunk, 12

Czernin, Franz Josef, 73, 110

d’Alembert, Jean-le-Rond, 37

Döhl, Reinhard, 109

Dada, 74–77, 81, 82, 84, 101

dadadodo (software), 73

database, 13, 32, 35, 36, 80

Dawkins, Richard, 17

de Jong, Jacqueline, 92

Debord, Guy, 91, 92

Deconstructor (software), 73

demiurgy, 52, 55

dice, 30, 55, 62, 76, 85

Dick, Philip K., 106

Dicuil, 42

Diderot, Denis, 37

Dissociated Press (software), 73

Dornseiff, Franz, 13

DOS (operating system), 39, 73, 75

Duke Nukem Forever (software), 122

E-Mail, 10, 95, 97, 108, 122

Eco, Umberto, 21–23, 31, 79, 80

ecstatic, 16, 26, 30, 34, 46, 51, 75, 77, 123

Einstein, Albert, 30

Emacs (software), 48, 73

emblems, 20

encyclopedism, 37, 38, 51, 61, 79, 84, 87

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 109, 110

Essl, Karlheinz, 73

Feldman, Morton, 75, 115

Fenollosa, Ernest, 66

Fluxus, 25, 47, 67, 73, 75

Flynt, Henry, 25

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 23

fractals, 26

Frazer, James George, 16–18

Free Software, 48–50, 52, 120

Freemasons, 6

Frelih, Luka, 81

Gödel, Kurt, 60, 64

Gaffurio, Franchino, 19, 21

Gardner, Martin, 11

genius, 22, 42, 57, 74, 80, 82, 104, 121

George, Stefan, 66

gnosticism, 13, 46, 114

GNU, 6, 13, 48, 49, 73, 103, 121, 123

GNU General Public License (GPL), 48, 49

God, 12, 13, 16, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33–37, 39, 42, 50, 123

Godard, Jean-Luc, 80

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 107–109, 111

golem, 39

Gomringer, Eugen, 63, 64, 66

Google, 13, 120

gothic, 12

Gracián, Baltasar, 20, 22

Graham, Paul, 121

Grand Guignol, 79

Gysin, Brion, 15–17, 26, 29, 46, 75, 77, 88, 89, 92

Haacke, Hans, 67

hacker, 25, 48, 92, 96, 109–111, 120, 123

hardware, 10, 52, 67, 70, 103, 106, 119, 121, 122

harmony, 18–21, 23, 25, 26

Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp, 43–45, 52, 53, 56, 59, 79, 80, 88, 109

Hartlib, Samuel, 49, 58

Hartman, Charles O., 73

Hawking, Stephen, 30

Heemskerk, Joan, 93

Heidegger, Martin, 85

Heraclitus, 18, 19

hermetic, 23, 38, 49

hieroglyphs, 6, 7, 33

Hofstadter, Douglas R., 24, 48

Honeywell (company), 46

Hopkins, Sharon, 93

Horkheimer, Max, 81

Hubbard, L. Ron, 113–115

I Ching, 75, 76

I/O/D, 86, 89, 115, 116

IBM (company), 119

IC (software), 75

Idel, Moshe, 34

indeterminism, 75–78, 112

industrial music, 14, 114, 115

information aesthetics, 65, 71, 91, 109

Intel (company), 121

interactive art, 93, 112, 120

interface, 24, 36, 38, 41, 50, 52, 83, 85, 93, 110–112, 115, 117

Invisible College, 58

IRCAM, 24

Isou, Isidore, 89

Itten, Johannes, 68

Jagger, Mick, 28

Jakobson, Roman, 12, 17

Jarry, Alfred, 70, 86, 88

Jodi, 86, 93–98, 110–112, 116, 123

John, Elton, 28

Johnston, Ryan, 81

Jorn, Asger, 68, 69, 87

Joy, Bill, 6

Joyce, James, 10–12, 72, 76

Judd, Donald, 120

Kabbalah, 27–31, 33–35, 39, 44–46, 48, 50, 62, 69, 84, 101, 114, 123

Kafka, Franz, 72

Kant, Immanuel, 12, 27, 116

Kawara, On, 67

Kay, Alan, 111

Kenner, Hugh, 72, 73

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 12, 66

Kircher, Athanasius, 33, 34, 37, 45, 103, 104, 109

Knuth, Donald, 6, 25, 121

Korzybski, Alfred, 114

Kosuth, Joseph, 67

Kristeva, Julia, 78

Kuhlmann, Quirinus, 45–47, 50–53, 56, 59–62, 103, 104, 106, 121, 123

Kyburz, Hanspeter, 7

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 78, 80

Lansius, Thomas, 43

Le Lionnais, Fran çois, 87, 88, 92

leet speech, 96, 113

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 37, 39, 43, 46, 61, 66, 91, 123

Leiris, Michel, 87

Lemaître, Maurice, 89

Leopold, Richard, 81, 82

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 20

Lettrism, 69, 89

Levy, Steven, 25

linguistics, 17, 27, 35, 43–45, 56, 67, 71, 78, 79, 87, 101, 102, 114, 115

Lippard, Lucy, 67

Lisp (programming language), 48, 102, 103

Llull, Ramon, 22, 34–37, 39, 43, 44, 46, 51–53, 69, 73, 80, 84, 103, 109

Logo (programming language), 56

Looking Glass (software), 41

Love, Courtney, 28

Lovecraft, H.P., 7

Lullism, 37–39, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 56–59, 61, 62, 66, 71, 79, 84, 87, 88, 91, 101–104, 106, 123

Lutz, Theo, 72, 92

MacLow, Jackson, 73

macrocosm, 23, 43, 45, 52, 55, 62, 66, 74, 75, 86, 104

Madonna, 28

magic, 6, 7, 12–18, 26–29, 33, 39, 44, 52, 70, 75, 77, 84, 85, 89, 101, 114, 115, 119, 123

Magix Musicmaker (software), 13

Maimon, Solomon, 27, 28

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 62–64, 66, 74, 76, 86

malware, 7

Mark V. Chaney (software), 73

Markov chains, 72, 73, 82, 101, 110

Markov, Andrei, 72

MAX (software), 23, 24, 113

McKenzie, Andrew, 114, 115

McLuhan, Marshall, 11, 85, 111

media theory, 11, 85, 86, 91, 95, 120, 122

meme, 17, 122

Mersenne, Marin, 104

Mesolist (software), 76

metaphysics, 7, 39, 46, 49, 52, 62, 63, 66, 67, 74, 75, 86, 89, 106, 123

mez, 9, 10, 12, 97, 98, 116, 117

mezangelle, 9, 10

microcosm, 23, 43, 52, 55, 62, 66, 74, 75, 86, 104

Microsoft (company), 114

Microsoft Windows (operating system), 41, 93, 114

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 25, 92, 103

Mix computer, 121

Moles, Abraham M., 67, 69, 90, 91

Morhof, Daniel Georg, 56, 104

Mozilla (software), 73

music, 7, 18, 19, 23–25, 62, 75–77, 83, 88, 91, 101, 104, 110, 112, 113, 122

mysticism, 13, 25, 27, 33, 34, 39, 46, 91

Napoleon, 6, 33

Native Instruments (company), 83

NATO (software), 113

Neoplatonism, 13, 33, 35, 62

net.art, 9, 11, 81, 82, 93, 96, 97, 110–112, 116, 117, 123

Newton, Isaac, 57

Nezvanova, Netochka, 112–114, 116, 123

Novalis, 61, 62, 66, 86, 91

O’Rourke, Joseph, 72

occult, 13–16, 18, 25, 26, 28, 31, 33, 45, 46, 52, 61, 66, 84, 113–116

Olmi, Ermanno, 80

ontology, 26, 49, 55, 73, 76–78, 80, 85, 106, 112, 121, 123

Optatianus Porfyrius, 42, 43, 74

Oulipo, 70, 72, 87–93, 96, 107, 109–111, 123

P-Orridge, Genesis, 14, 16

Paesmans, Dirk, 93

Paik, Nam June, 11, 111

Partition Magic (software), 13

pataphysics, 70, 86–88, 107, 110, 111, 123

Pater, Walter, 20

Peirce, Charles S., 65

Peitgen, Hans Otto, 26

Perec, Georges, 89, 90, 107–111

Perl (programming language), 73, 92, 93, 121

Perl poetry, 73, 122

permutation, 15, 17, 24, 29–31, 33, 34, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 51, 52, 62–64, 73, 74, 77, 78, 82, 90, 91, 103, 110, 114

Photoshop (software), 83

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 33, 34

Plato, 40, 59, 85

Plots Unlimited (software), 80, 83

Plunderphonics, 76

POE (software), 73, 110

poetics, 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 39, 42, 43, 45, 47, 51, 56, 64, 66, 68, 74, 75, 78, 80, 82, 84–86, 88–92, 102, 107, 108

Pound, Ezra, 66

Prehn, Ralf, 81

Propp, Vladimir, 78–80

Pseudo-Longinus, 12

psychogeography, 69, 70, 76, 79, 86, 90, 123

Puckette, Miller, 24

Pure Data (software), 24

Pynchon, Thomas, 30

Pythagorean, 18–27, 33, 39, 62, 66, 69, 74–76, 84, 123

Queneau, Raymond, 87, 88, 90, 109

random, 7, 22, 62, 72–76, 78, 83

Raskin, Jef, 85

recursion, 48, 49, 51, 62, 64, 73, 77, 78, 98, 102

recursive acronym, 48, 120

religion, 7, 13, 28, 35, 39, 55, 61, 77, 87

reverse-engineering, 30, 39, 45, 51, 59

rhetoric, 12, 20–22, 35, 39–45, 51, 52, 56, 104

Rolling Stones, 14

romanticism, 12, 22, 26, 61, 66, 69, 70, 74, 76, 79, 80, 87, 89

Rosenberg, Jim, 76

Rosetta stone, 6, 33

Rosicrucian, 45, 49, 50, 113

Sarbiewski, Kazimierz, 20, 21, 104

satanism, 46

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 27

Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 42, 43, 64, 74

Schönberg, Arnold, 24

Schiller, Friedrich, 12

Schmatz, Ferdinand, 73, 110

Scholem, Gershom, 28

Schwitters, Kurt, 73

science fiction, 6, 7, 12, 106, 116

Scientology, 113–115

scratching, 76

Seagal, Steven, 5, 6, 10, 119

Searle, John R., 104–106, 108

Sefer Yetzirah, 28–31, 34, 36, 37, 39, 45, 52, 62, 74, 119

Sefirot, 28, 33, 34

semantics, 10, 16, 18, 21, 35–37, 41, 42, 46, 48, 51–53, 61, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 77, 84, 86, 89, 91, 98, 102, 104, 107, 108, 110, 113, 114, 123

semiotics, 65–67, 78, 80

serial music, 24, 29, 77

serial music, 24

Shakur, Tupac, 96

Shanken, Edward A., 67

Shannon, Claude, 65, 66, 71–73

Shulgin, Alexei, 113

Situationism, 68–70, 79, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92

Snow, C. P., 14

socialfiction.org, 70

Sollfrank, Cornelia, 81, 82, 85, 86

Solomon, 45, 51

Sommerville, Ian, 15

Sondheim, Alan, 96–98

Sonic Foundry (company), 83

Spears, Britney, 28, 77

speculative, 6, 7, 12, 17, 27, 30, 33, 34, 58–61, 70, 71, 90, 91, 107, 115, 119, 121–123

Stallman, Richard, 6, 48

stochastics, 30, 72, 76–78, 109, 112

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 24, 25, 77, 84, 88

structuralism, 17, 67, 78–80, 90

Sun (company), 41

Surrealism, 68–70, 75, 79, 86, 87, 93

Suzuki, Daisetz T., 75

Swift, Jonathan, 57–59, 61, 71, 73, 74, 86, 89, 102, 106

syntax, 9, 21, 41, 42, 52, 53, 91, 92, 98, 102, 105, 108, 113

Taylor, Liz, 28

Tel Quel, 78, 90

Terminator (movie), 6

Tesauro, Emanuele, 20, 22

TeX (software), 6, 25

TextMangler (software), 73

Theall, Donald, 11

theosophy, 33, 37, 46, 55, 86, 89, 104

theurgy, 13, 27, 28, 39, 43, 44, 52

Thoens, Barbara, 81

Tillotson, John, 13

Torah, 27, 30–32, 101

Torvalds, Linus, 121

Traktor (software), 83

Transmeta (company), 121

travesty (software), 72, 73

Tukey, John W., 119

Turing, Alan, 30, 56, 70, 88, 106, 121, 123

Tzara, Tristan, 74–78, 81, 82, 101, 123

Ullrichs, Tim, 64

Unix (operating system), 9, 13, 39, 41, 48, 92, 96–98, 110, 119, 120

vaporware, 7, 122

vi (software), 6

Vian, Boris, 87

Vienet, René, 79

virtual reality, 85, 86, 111, 116

virus, 7, 17, 18, 47, 49, 94, 95, 108, 122

Visconti, Luchino, 80

Voynich Manuscript, 6, 7, 10

Wagner, Richard, 62

Wall, Larry, 72, 92, 120

Ward, Adrian, 83, 86

Warhol, Andy, 81

Wark, McKenzie, 95

Web Stalker (software), 115, 116

Weiner, Lawrence, 67

Wiki (software), 70

Wilkins, John, 58

Wilson, Colin, 7

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 20

Wolff, Christian, 75

X11 Window System (software), 41

Xerox PARC, 20, 85, 111

xlife (software), 55

Young, La Monte, 47

Zawinsky, Jamie, 73

Zen, 75

ZKM (media arts center), 68