A-Z

Tauba Auerbach

Alphabetized Bible

2006

Laser printed pages, cloth bound book, gold foil

8 x 6 x 1.5 inches closed 20.3 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm closed

Eric Hu

A Thousand Characters

One thousand unique illustrations of each character in a classical Chinese poem that consisted of 1000 non-repeating Chinese characters (千字文). These were drawn with my mouse using a dynamic drawing application I had programmed in Processing then manipulated further in Adobe Photoshop. A separate website where all 1000 illustrations will be online soon.

Olivier Lebrun

A Pocket Companion to Books from the Simpsons in Alphabetical Order

the last couple of years, graphic designer Olivier Lebrun has been collecting screenshots of Simpsons episodes that (in one way or other) display books. A Pocket Companion to Books from The Simpsons in Alphabetical Order assembles his 174 favorites. Not included are Simpsons magazines, newspapers and other printed matter, which possibly could serve as material for a follow-up to this project.

http://www.rollo-press.com/#another-companion-to-books-from-the-simpsons-in-alphabetical-orderhttp://olivierlebrun.fr 

Christien Meindertsma

Checked Baggage

2004In 2004, Meindertsma purchased a lot of 3264 objects confiscated from travelers at security checkpoints at the Amsterdam airport. This book is a visual catalogue of those objects, which range from souvenir corkscrews to toy guns. Each copy of the book is sealed with one of the actual objects.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/6469

Aram Bartholl

Dead drop

2010-12

‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation.

Aram Bartholl

Forgot your password?

2013

8 volumes, hardcover21 x 27 cm, ca. 800 pages eachIn summer 2012 the social network LinkedIn.com got hacked and lost its whole user database. A few months later parts of the decrypted password list surfaced on the Internet. These eight volumes contain 4.7 million LinkedIn clear text user passwords printed in alphabetical order. Visitors are invited to look up their own password.

Felix Heyes and Ben West

Google, Vol. 1

201321.5 x 30 cmhardback

Visual Dictionary. The A-Z Dictionary of Google Images—For the Moment. Repurposing the Oxford English Pocket Dictionary and its 21,110 entries, their directory provides a visual equivalence by way of subbing in the first outcome for each word from what they pulled from Google Images.