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Friday, October 26, 2007

I've been looking for a pic of this forever!

Bibliomechanics
Christian Bök
Twenty-seven Rubik's Cubes with printed lettering.
6-3/4" x 6-3/4" x 6-3/4"
Courtesy of the artist.
Thanks J.Henry Chunko!

Christian Bok (with umlaut, pronounced like "book,"also my favorite living poet): Bibliomechanics consists of 27 Rubik's cubes, stacked together into a block (3" x 3" x 3") so as to create a device reminiscent of the writing-machine described by Jonathan Swift in The Voyage to Laputa--"a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations." Every facet of these cubes displays a white word printed in Futura on a black label so that, when properly stacked together, the cubes create 18 separate surfaces (6 exterior, 12 interior), each one of which becomes a page that displays a readable sentence (81 words long). The reader can, of course, scramble each cube so as to create a new text from the vocabulary of the old text.

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