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Microsoft has its own Project Glass

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Microsoft's project Glass revealed through a patent application
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The History of Text-based Art

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Kurt Schwitters: Godfather of Modern Text Art : Schwitters, influenced by Ferdinand de Saussurre (d. 1913) whose work focused on the relationship of sound to written language and tension between name and object (as illustrated by Magritte in 1928), worked in a multitude of genres including typography (see Merz, below), collage and painting. He also worked with performance pieces and poems that took the form of graphic scores. I don’t mean to imply I understand the entirely of his work, I’m stealing part of this while I better learn the larger picture of what he created. However, I do know this: Kurt Schwitters was the first to give equal weight to both artist material and text then exploring what this implied. ...
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Ophelia Escriu-Num'llul's comment, December 19, 2012 1:14 PM
Tout à fait d'accord sur l'importance du travail de Schwitters... Je voudrais aussi, cependant, évoquer celui des concrétistes brésiliens, http://ecritnum.blogspot.fr/2012/08/blog-post.html, des lettristes, du groupe de Granollers et de Brossa, des poètes sonores, de la poésie numérique cf Donguy... http://ecritnum.blogspot.fr/2012/10/jean-pascal-dubost-aime-ca.html et tout le travail de fond de J-P.Dubost dans son blog "Rêveries au travail"... Tout ce qui a préparé à lire et écrire numérique et non numérisé...