Work

Title

Bible (alphabetical order)

Author

Rory Macbeth

Date

1997

Description

A dos app (coded by Ian Macbeth) that reorganizes text into alphabetical order applied to the Bible.

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Statement

By applying one system by which we order and make sense of things (alphabetical order), to another that is wide open to interpretation (the Bible), we are left with bugger-all, apart from some pretty patterns, but in a minimal, texty way, so it looks like art.

URL

twenteenthcentury.com/projects.php?proj_id=100&action=display&context=projects&mem_id=3

Medium

Book, Script

Download

bibalph.exe (15kb) programmed by Ian Macbeth.

Extra

The project is also archived at Runme.org.

Keywords

appropriation, authorship, digital, language, process, reading, writing

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ID

1184