Yelping with Cormac: Dolores Park

June 26th, 2013 8:59pm

Posted on Tumblr over 13 years ago and archived here at /tumblr/2013/06/26/yelping-with-cormac-dolores-park/ in the Tumblr collection.
Proximate posts in the Tumblr collection
newer Pretty sure I could restore from keyboard faster. Is that how time capsules work? Little geniuses inside? on Flickr. 27 June 2013
this post Post #53987866648 27 June 2013
older new-aesthetic: “Over the course of a year, I researched and created ZXX, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress’ listing of three-letter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) — misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence. I drew six different cuts (Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise and Xed) to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way. I offered the typeface as a free download in hopes that as many people as possible would use it.” Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface — The Gradient — Walker Art Center 25 June 2013
Proximate posts in the General collection
newer Twitter post from June 27, 2013, 350107659497771010 27 June 2013
this post Post #53987866648 27 June 2013
older Twitter post from June 27, 2013, 350099700789161986 27 June 2013