The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art

Paul Zelevansky

American

American artist, writer and educator working across painting, sculpture, performance, video and artists' books for some fifty years, on the seam between word and image. He is part of the computer-art record for SWALLOWS (1985–86), a "literary videogame" written in Forth-79 for the Apple II and distributed on a 5.25-inch floppy, subtitled "electronic mythology for an audience of one" — an early work of interactive computational literature. His artists' books, including the trilogy The Case for the Burial of Ancestors and The Shadow Architecture at the Crossroads Annual 19X (1988), build narrative by assembling and reordering fragments under a governing system.

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