Slides from presentation to Centre for Comparative History of Print, University of Leeds, 8 June 2016

1. Cultures of the Book, University of Leeds
9 June 2016
New Materialities Andrew Prescott
University of Glasgow

2. Roll from the English royal chancery, 1379-1380

3. 14th-century ‘pipe roll’ from the English Royal Exchequer now made
available via the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website at the O’Quinn
Law Library, University of Houston:
aalt.law.uh.edu

4. The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, London, British Library, Add.
MS. 49598, ff. 90v-91: Blessing for the feast of St Ætheldreda

5. 3D imaging of the eighth-century St Chad Gospels at Lichfield Cathedral by
Professor William Endres, University of Kentucky: lichfield.as.uky.edu

6. Poster for sake printed by the
Toppan printing company,
Tokyo, 1915-23.

7. Microminiature printed
bible, measuring 4
millimetres square,
produced by Toppan for
the New York World’s
Fair, 1965

8. Toppan report on the 2004 Cicero project with the Vatican Library for use of
digital imaging to investigate palimpsest manuscripts

9. yourfry.com
Stephen Fry’s Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqahjME6Tbg

10. Sara Weigold, The Book of Bipolarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=s9eoUycIk5M

11. Cathy Horton’s interactive shipping forecast map, made using conductive ink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGSQ8ESZRA

12. Conductive ink and electric paint: Bare Conductive
bareconductive.com

13. Conductive ink used to draw (or write) a
circuit - or paint a light switch on the wall

14. Postcard player
created by Uniform
and Bare Conductive

15. Mike Shorter and Jon Rogers, A Touch of Fry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=jCBoKblmhds
http://productresearch.dundee.ac.uk

16. Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyph Sound System, proof of concept, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYn7oQlLiA

17. Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Dataflags: Lehmann Brothers (2014)
Somerset paper, screenprint, data from the last ten years of Lehman Brothers’ financial trading, electric paint, soundsystem, custom code, voice soprano (Madge).
2.40x1.40x0.05mt

18. Dalziel and Pow, Engaging Spaces exhibit at Retail Design Expo, London, March 2015. A
combination of data projection and conductive ink is used to create an interactive mural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poA9bZ76iJk

19. “Aestheticode is a machine readable and human readable aesthetic encoding system. It is similar in function to a barcode,
except it looks like a Sol LeWitt wall painting or Gerhard Richter's window in the Cologne Cathedral. Its complexity is
similar to that of morse code”.
Aestheticodes: aestheticodes.com.

20. carolanguitar.com
Steve Benford’s introduction to the project is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjgn5YO1Lk
“We’ve made a musical instrument that tells you its
own life story. It captures its history and will play it
back to you”

21. Tangible Memories project: http://tangible-memories.com
• An app that enables residents to work with families and care staff to create their own
interactive life history books or group history books. Stories are recorded into the book and
played back by simply scanning pages of the book.
• An interactive rocking chair that enables residents to listen to audio including sounds of
nature, poems and favourite music.
• A tactile patchwork cushion which can be programmed to play favourite music or audio
stories – personalized for individual residents, using printed images and visual recognition
software.
• A ‘pick up to play’ music app, that makes listening to a memory filled music playlist as simple
as picking up the phone.
• The use of Virtual Reality headsets that can transport residents to local landmarks and places
they are no longer able to visit.

22. Physical Charts, a project by Microsoft Research Cambridge for the Tenison Road
community project that set out to encourage civic engagement with locally generated
data, such as surveys on traffic and air quality. The result is a mechanical pie chart
made from slices of sheet plastic attached to a central motor and bar chart constructed
from motorised measuring tapes, both of which animate to display real-time data.
They are now on display in a shop window in Cambridge.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/physicalcharts/

23. Eduardo Kac, ‘Untitled II’, 1982

24. Não!, Eduardo Kac, 1982: online version

29. Holo/Olho (1983)
Holo/Eye

30. Bob Cobbing, Tiger I (1971)

31. Tom Edmunds's "compromise poem box" (1969)

32. Iain Hamilton Finlay, Sheaves (1970)

33. Iain Hamilton Finlay, The Present Order (1983)

34. The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, London, British Library, Add.
MS. 49598, ff. 90v-91: Blessing for the feast of St Ætheldreda

35. DataBronze, 2013: Ian Gwilt, Sheffield Hallam University