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.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
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