Of Bits
24” x 28” Black & White, PDF
720 variations on the period (.)
In his recent book In Praise of Copying, Marcus Boon cites a personal conversation he had with Julian Dibbell who says of bits:
“We tend to think of bits as being sort of atomic, on-or-off monads, but they are usually represented as two voltage levels-1 being thus-and-such a voltage level, 0 being another.” He proposes a question: “How different can two electronically coded 1s be?” and replies that it’s like asking how many ways one might write various 1s on a page with pen and paper. He ends by asking - might ever see a calligraphy of the bit?