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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Recursive apologies
    sub title: Janet Zweig's text generating sculpture 1990-2010
  title info:
    title: Janet Zweig's text generating sculpture 1990-2010
  title info:
    title: Text generating sculpture 1990-2010
  name:
    name part: Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Osman, Jena
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Drucker, Johanna
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In the early 1990s, when personal computing was young and artificial intelligence was not yet in the popular imagination, artist Janet Zweig created something extraordinary and prescient: sculptures that married early computers, simple algorithms, and dot-matrix printers with mechanical parts to auto-generate streams of poetic text that moved objects. Essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker reveal how Zweig's witty contraptions were an early premonition of our current technological reality: an atmosphere of disinformation, fake news, and digital hallucinations. As Osman writes: "AI robs us of our imaginative faculty. Zweig's sculptures, by contrast, gave us what we still very much need: opportunities for explorative play, the recognition of our own thought processes... and the potential to see the world as a site for creative collaboration." Richly illustrated, Recursive Apologies: Janet Zweig's Text Generating Sculpture presents these works alongside the sources that inspired them. With a recursive design by Ben Denzer that mirrors the very concepts it explores, the book offers both a visual archive and a reflection on our ongoing relationship with thinking machines" --Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Essays. Janet Zweig's prophetic transitional objects / Thyrza Nichols Goodeve ; Cog-ignitions: thinking about thinking objects / Jena Osman ; LET instruction$="generate language" / Johanna Drucker -- Works. The liar paradox (Oliver North m̲bius), 1991 ; Mind over matter, 1993 ; Thinking contest, 1995 ; Her recursive apology, 1993 ; The prisoners' dilemma, 1993 ; Everything in the world, 1997 ; How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, 1998 ; Artificial life, 1999 ; Impersonator, 2002 ; Lipstick enigma, 2010 ; Thanks a million, 1993.
  note: essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker, design by Ben Denzer, copyediting and proofreading by Rachel Churner.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zweig, Janet
  subject:
    topic: Technology in art
  subject:
    topic: Communication in art
  subject:
    topic: Art and technology
  subject:
    topic: Mixed media sculpture
  subject:
    topic: Art, American
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Art, American
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Technologie dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: Communication dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: Art et technologie
  subject:
    topic: Art américain
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Art américain
    temporal: 21e siècle
  classification: N6537.Z82 A4 2026
  identifier: 9781941753934
  identifier: 1941753930
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: IUP
    record creation date: 260617
    record change date: 20260808204511.4
    record identifier: in00005790266
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng