Abstract
In his work David Link generates (apparently) interactive projects, at the interface between art, science, and technology. For LoveLetters_1.0, Link reconstructed a functional replica of one of the earliest programmable computers, the Ferranti Mark I, and an equally early program, invented in 1952 by Christopher Strachey at the University of Manchester. To produce computer-generated love letters, written using a built-in random generator. Anonymously addressed to “Darling Love” or “Jewel Duck,” the letters talk to the reader in a surprisingly human and tender way. In his introduction, Geoff Cox highlights the question, already suggested by the apparently contradictory title of this notebook, Machine Heart, of whether the human capacity for thinking and feeling has been captured by machines.
Publication Date
2011-05-01
Volume
37
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
ISBN
978-3775728867
Embargo Period
2024-11-19
Recommended Citation
Cox, G. (2011) 'David Link – Machine Heart', Hatje Cantz: Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ada-research/477
Comments
Published in German and English. Also published in The Book of Books, dOCUMENTA (13) catalogue, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2011. pp. 269-273. German/English. ISBN 978-3-7757-2951-2