Colophon
“A.K.” is not a person. This is a concept site — a design exercise — and every work, date, duration, quotation and collaborator initial in the catalogue is invented.
The media is real and openly licensed. Where a licence requires attribution, it is given below in full.
- Registers
- Four — archive, light field,
risograph, essay - Halftone
- Bayer 8×8 ordered dither,
computed in-browser - Point field
- 95,000 points · raw WebGL
- Build step
- None. Static HTML/CSS/JS.
Music
CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribution required, and given
“smokestacks”, from Ten Skies — Patricia Taxxon
Heard as 004 — Room Tone (II). Excerpted and faded.
CC BY-SA 4.0
“the view from below”, from Ten Skies — Patricia Taxxon
Heard as 007 — Slow Machine (revised). Excerpted and faded.
CC BY-SA 4.0
“lonely blue, holy blue”, from Ten Skies — Patricia Taxxon
Heard as 011 — Dissolving Room. Excerpted and faded.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. These recordings are the work of their author and are not original to this site.
Public domain
Chopin — Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1
Heard as 002 — Transmission. Via Wikimedia Commons.
public domain
Photography
NASA — public domain
Mercury spacecraft instrument control panels
Plate 01
s61-03257Flight Dynamics Officer console, Mission Control
Plate 03
41g-90084Console position, Mission Control
Plate 06
S68-557421/50 scale model, 80×120 ft wind tunnel
Plate 04
A76-0636Mercury spacecraft — line drawing
Plate 05
S63-21624Pexels Licence — no attribution required
Vintage reel-to-reel close-up — Markus Spiske
Plate 02
pexels 92066Vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder
Plate 07
pexels 14543171Close-up of a fogged window — Tim Mossholder
Appendix plate
pexels 16065847Audio equipment in a studio — César Guillotel
Fig. 1
pexels 12622097Ink dispersing in water — Engin Akyurt
bloom-loop.mp4
pexels 6067847Type
IBM Plex Mono
Every functional label, on every register.
OFLArchivo
Variable. Display and titling.
OFLInstrument Serif
Light-field and essay registers.
OFL