Flower World Variations (Expanded Edition) - Paperback
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As part of the Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts series, The OS presents FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS, a revised and expanded version of Jerome Rothenberg's variations on a set of traditional Yaqui Indian Deer Dance songs, with computer-generated drawings by Harold Cohen, one of our truly great pioneer computer artists. Originally published in a modest 1984 offset edition the book has been redesigned and expanded, featuring an updated introduction by Rothenberg and an excerpt from Cohen's writings on the nature of mark-making and meaning/metaphor over a wide range of times and cultures. As such it serves also as a memorial and tribute to Harold Cohen, whose recent passing it helps to commemorate.
"The process of translation is here re-imagined as a new wilderness by Jerome Rothenberg and Harold Cohen, in a multilayered composition of poems and computer generated drawings for the 'human / other-than-human worlds' originally composed by the Yaqui poets of Arizona. An oral masterpiece, rendered masterfully. A moment to rejoice "-Cecilia Vicu a
Cohen, Harold: - Harold Cohen (1928-2016), a groundbreaking digital artist, won a reputation as a painter in London in the 1960's, but is best known for the project that would occupy him for 40-plus years: the invention and evolution of the AARON program. He worked for decades bringing computing into the mainstream of art and exhibited widely with AARON. His work has been exhibited at the Tate, the LA County Museum, The Stedelijk, the San Fransisco Museum, documenta 6, and elsewhere. There is a permanent exhibit dedicated to his work at the Museum of Computing History.
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