Antony CairnsIBM personal computer (EDT OF 35)
Photographs: Antony Cairns
Text: Antony Cairns
Publisher: Self published
Year: 2020
Sold
Computer Punch Card Selected Works Catalogue 01 brings together many versions of the latest and most complex iterations of this practice. While retaining the same original photographic source material, which remains black and white images of cities like London and Tokyo at night, this time the support brings colour and an element of chance into the final image.
Each individual image in this series is printed out across a grid of used IBM computer punch cards, varying in size, colour combinations and complexity, which are then pinned to a backboard. The small (8.3 x 18.7 cm) punch cards that make up each finished object were an early system by which computer programs were fed into generations of computing machines in the 1970s, through a combination of printed binary codes and punched holes – both of which are still visible on the cards used here. As such, like my previous projects with E Tablets and electronic ink, these works continue my investigation into outmoded or defunct technologies from both their aesthetic and practical points of view. In this case I am interested not only in the specific colours and combinations of colours of the cards, which produce their own abstractions, adding to those of the original images, but in the ways in which the sequences of printed numbers and the process of pinning them together replicates the essence of digital technology in a totally man-made and man-altered way
Extract of the text by antony Cairns
More by Antony Cairns
LDN2
Antony Cairns
Sold
Kingsland road (Signed)
Antony Cairns
Sold
TYO2 - PAPER VERSION (SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
TYO2 (ONLY 35 COPIES - SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
LPT (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
CTY (numbered copy)
Antony Cairns
Sold
Osaka Station City (Signed and Numbered on 85 copies)
Antony Cairns
Price: € 250
PXL CTY Film (edt of 35)
Antony Cairns
Sold
LDN (SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
LPT (SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
LDN3 (SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
FREE PLAY (SIGNED)
Antony Cairns
Sold
More books tagged “extremely limited”>> see all
Uchu Nippon Enseki (Space Japan Club) (EDT of 50 signed)
George Booth Cole
Sold
Hello Do you remember me ? (Only 133 copies)
Hang Tam
Price: € 90
Asahi Camera (Bigger version / UNIQUE BOOK)
Thibault Tourmente
Sold
The Universe Doesn't Know
Rie Suzuki
Price: € 30
I wish you were here (Only 40 copies)
Eduardo Serafim
Price: € 220
Oddments 2/5 (Special edition of 5 copies)
Gael del Rio and Luca Bani
Price: € 350
More books tagged “computer”>> see all
More books tagged “self published”>> see all
Vues Minuscules (H) (EDT OF 5)
Louise Narbo
Sold
Plants, midstream of TamaRiver, winter (SIGNED)
Daisuke Yokota
Price: € 50
DISTOPIA (SPECIAL EDITION OF 20)
David Nissen
Price: € 250
In the Shadow of the Pyramids (signed)
Laura El-Tantawy
Price: € 350
Brutal (signed)
Collective
Price: € 45
Trilogy : Lot of 3 books (Handmade edt with prints)
Chloé Jafé
Price on request
More books tagged “Artist's book”>> see all
INSTAGRAM RECORDINGS
Sébastien Girard
Sold
Deuil Blanc (EDT OF 30)
Flore Prebay
Price: € 975
Sanguine (EDT OF 30)
Tissa D. / Satié BURGIO - SASADA
Sold
Police, Politicians, Policy, Politeness (EDT OF 4)
Larry
Sold
ZEMLAJA KOJA PUCA POD NAMA, A STABLO / THE EARTH CRUMBLING BELOW, (and) THE TREE (EDT OF 17)
Sergej Vutuc
Sold
1984 (EDT OF 30)
Oscar Berling-Pesant
Price: € 90
