Christian Bok
@christianbok
Experimental Poet
Wen New Atelier (@wennew_atelier) is selling its Miniscriber (a toy for making poetry automatically), doing so in a limited edition with each purchase of an NFT at the artshow "Between Worlds" in Paris: lacollection.io/contemporary/v…
Notes for the design of PRIMORDIAL by @caballeroanama—(with congrats to @itsdanpearson):
THE PORTALS – QUENINGTON OLD RECTORY IN THE COTSWOLDS, UK by @blakeneysanford:
Collectors who missed the Special Edition of THE XENOTEXT (BOOK 2) can still obtain samples of the organism on a glass slide (limited to an edition of 100 specimens, complete with a certificate of authenticity): chbooks.com/Merchandise/Th…
A sample of D. radiodurans, hosting "The Xenotext":
HELIX Poets know that death is just a line break in these infinite twists of recursive design: time. Life begets life in rhythms, hums. No poem wants to die, its codes wrung from all of us, ad infinitum. (For @christianbok)
CURSIVE BINARY: HELIX by @sashastiles [Sasha Stiles has used an algorithm to convert her poem, entitled ‘Helix,’ into binary code, transcribing this sequence into an image based upon her own handwriting]: ————— objkt.com/tokens/KT1N9Cm…
Available at "The Xenotext: Language Is a Virus" for 16.66 XTZ (to reflect the year of the Great Plague of London): objkt.com/tokens/KT1N9Cm…
THE CROWN #4 by Gregory Betts:
Congratulations, @bassil_taleb!—who has sold out all 16 variants of THE DARK, PALE MEADOW at the artshow for "The Xenotext: Language Is a Virus": objkt.com/collections/KT…
They show you where each chessmen typically goes to die on a chessboard:
CURSIVE BINARY: HELIX by @sashastiles [Sasha Stiles has used an algorithm to convert her poem, entitled ‘Helix,’ into binary code, transcribing this sequence into an image based upon her own handwriting]: ————— objkt.com/tokens/KT1N9Cm…
Charles Bernstein (@chrlesbernstein) has received his "artists edition" of THE XENOTEXT (BOOK 2)—while wearing "The Crown of Venom" as a hatband:
Excerpt from my interview with @speciesofvalue (via @theverseverse):
Here’s a speedrun of top 10 lessons from The Xenotext (Book 2) by Christian Bök: 1. Art can transcend time via DNA encoding. 2. Poetry and genetics merge for immortal expression. 3. Extremophiles like D. radiodurans ensure data survival. 4. Encipherment turns words into living…