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*ENCODED & ENCRYPTED*

Exhibition at the Brizdle Schoenberg Special Collections Center

2nd floor of the Alfred R. Goldstein Library
<http://www.ringling.edu/library>

Ringling College of Art + Design

*On view May 24 through August 31, 2017*

To *encode*, some kind of conversion takes place. When we markup text for
the screen, <strong>this</strong> displays *this*. With *encryption*, a
conversion of form occurs as well, only with the added intent to restrict
access. A receipt displays X’s to hide all but the last 4-digits of your
credit card number. It harbors a secret, *your* secret, and protects it. As
acts of translation and acts of concealment, encoding and encryption reside
on the same twisted möbius.

The artists’ publications on display at the Brizdle Schoenberg Special
Collections Center are brought together under this premise. The exhibition
highlights a facsimile (1963) of the visually and linguistically coded
wonder of 15th century printing, the *Hypnerotomachia poliphili*, and asks
in what ways has symbolism always been a form of encryption?

This early exemplar is accompanied by a selection of contemporary bookworks
by artists, designers, and writers. Many utilize sign systems to encode and
encrypt, as is the case with the subversive shorthand of *Barbara Leoff
Burge *in *None of Your Damn Business* (2009); the storytelling ideograms
in *Warja Lavater’s* artists’ books (c. 1965–1974); and the braille
compositions in *Rachel Simkover's* *An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
(Braille Edition)* (2013). Other works in the exhibition like *Book from
the Ground* (2013) by *Xu Bing* are encoded to reach a global, expanded
readership, while works like *Gelbes Buch* (2004) by *Cyril Dietrich
*participate
in willful distortion and refuse to be read. *BEAUT. E (Code)* (2005) by *Karen
Hanmer* can be read by both humans and machines, *human: bot* (2014) by *Joe
Milo* is written from the perspective of a machine to a human reader, and
the beguiling world of the *Codex seraphinianus* (1981) by *Luigi Serafini* is
a sendup to an imaginary civilization of human-machines.

The exhibition entangles the visual and linguistic possibilities of the
alphabetic, the ideographic, the algorithmic, and the enigmatic.

For more information, please contact *Janelle Rebel*, Digital Curation and
Special Collections Librarian ([log in to unmask] / 941.359.7583
<(941)%20359-7583>)


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