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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3303 Collections and/or Records:

Transformation / Tunga., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51793-72893
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended this exhibition during a visit to Tokyo in December 2010. The theme of this show was the figurative depiction of animals being transformed into humanoids and vice-versa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Transit of Venus / Willetts, David ; Bann S., 1975

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Identifier: CC-49537-70585
Scope and Contents

This series of nature drawings use densely packed cross hatching marks. Steven Bann contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Translations / Jess ; Duncan, Robert., 1971

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Identifier: CC-08225-8386
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This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition of oil paintings held at the Odyssia Gallery, New York in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Translucent Writing / Adrian R ; Dwyer N ; Holzer J ; Jaar A ; Kosuth J ; Locher T ; Ruscha E ; Weibel P ; Nannucci M ; Mallarme S ; Merz M ; Nauman B ; Ray M ; Insam G ; Eerdekens F., 1994

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Identifier: CC-36450-38244
Scope and Contents

The works in this exhibition featured neon, computer generated, video, and LED word works. Ferdinand Schmatz contributed an essay entitled "Word-Writing-Space - The NON-written Book: Approaches to Mallarme, Light and Time." Peter Weibel's essay is "The Medium Writing in the Age of the Turing Galaxy." Curator Grita Insam, guest curator, contributed a catalogue epilogue relating to the theme of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Transparence / Henri Chopin; Marc Battier., 1995

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Identifier: CC-20836-21244
Scope and Contents

The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Transparence / Henri Chopin; Marc Battier., 1995

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Identifier: CC-20836-21244
Scope and Contents

The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Transparency / Bilak, Peter ; Samuels D ; McLuhan M ; Brody N., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28718-30024
Scope and Contents

The text is printed in red and blue colors and the reader is supplied with two pieces of plastic film, one red, the other blue. By using one or the other film over the text, the reader sees mainly the blue or the red texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997