Two double spreads from Melvin L Prueitt’s Computer Graphics (1975) standout among the perfect parabolic topologies and wireframe nuclear spectra – a selection of graphical rendering errors, possibility some of the earliest examples of glitch art to appear in print. Looking like disjointed plots of a (dis)locative media project gone awry or poorly planned...

Cyclographic Transformation of Ordinary Space – The University of Colorado Studies [1902-03]. Selected tweets from Twitter:@MrPrudence combined with a few short posts taken from the Dataisnature Facebook page. Cyclographic Transformation of Ordinary Space – The University of Colorado Studies. [1902-03] Plates from The Polarisation of Light – William...

The note added to the previous post referencing KGB spies using crochet to encrypt secret cold war messages was added for personal amusement being unaware that knitting and crochet have actually been used to encrypt secret messages. Atlas Obscura explores the story of Phyllis Latour Doyle, a secret agent during World War II who encrypted […]

Nearly every source of attribution for old crochet patterns found on the web remains a mystery. There exists a dark web of pattern swapping enthusiasts fostering a contagion spread that conceals its origin. But one source identified is the old Russian language Duplet Magazine – worth singling out for its graphic ordering of patterns in […]

Cultivating the Map – Danny Wills Selected tweets from @MrPrudence Torvaianica – Josef Dabernig [1984] Translating the Torvaianica in Lazio via a² + b² = c² to create data notations. Glossolalie 61 and other graphic Scores – Dieter Schnebel. Fascialis 20% @wblut is re/deconstructing 3D anatomy. Rento Van Drunen’s Gridcollages – abstract renditions of...

Todoroki House – Hiromi Fujii [1975] In the 1970’s Japanese architect Hiromi Fujii neutralised his architectural projects from time, tradition and convention by using the most archetypal of all conceptual objects, the cube. Programming this minimal element through further syntactic transformations into more complex nested structures allowed his drawings...