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online project: alphabet synthesis machine
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive software artwork by Golan
Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis. The Machine allows its
users to breed and explore the abstract and evocative forms of personalized
"nonsense alphabets"—coherent sets of abstract, glyphlike
forms which might resemble the plausible writing systems of alien civilizations
or unfamiliar human societies. A user launches the Machine by providing
a scribbled gesture as a point of departure, and then guides the evolution
of the twinkling, writhing squiggles. Users who are satisfied with the
results can download their alphabet as a PC-formatted TrueType font.
examples by visitors
The following fonts and alphabets were created by
visitors to the site. You can browse the archive
of fonts created by visitors over the past two years, or launch the Alphabet
Synthesis Machine to create your own PC-formatted TrueType font.
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| acidjazz by max a million |
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| collusus_freehand by irdial discs |
credits
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork
created for Art21 and PBS by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg
and Cassidy Curtis, the Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a co-production
of Art21, Inc., New York City, and The Arts Company, Cambridge,
MA. Executive Producer: Susan Dowling. Version 1.1 (January 2002)
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