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Ars combinatoria: mystical systems, procedural art, and the computer
Art Journal, Fall, 1997 by Janet Zweig
Notes
1. Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967), 3-4.
2. Charles O. Hartman, Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (London: Wesleyan University Press, 1996). 29.
3. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New York: New Directions. 1962), 199-202.
4. Opinions vary from the second to the sixth century.
5. Aryeh Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation, in Theory and Practice (York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser, 1990), 100.
6. Ibid., 124.
7. Ibid., 113-25.
8. Ibid., 190.
9. Ibid., 191-93.
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10. David R. Blumenthal, Understanding Jewish Mysticism: A Source Reader (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1978), 8.
11. Ibid., 45.
12. Gershom G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York: Schocken Books. 1941), 136-37.
13. Ibid., 1.50.
14. Johanna Drucker, The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (London: Thames Hudson, 1995), 126.
15. Anthony Bonner, ed., Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader (Princeton. N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985), 298.
16. From an English abstract by Florian Cramer of a German text by Peter Bexte and Werner Kunzel about Ramon Llutl on the Internet. Internet address: (http://berlin.icf.de/~inscape/lullus/lull_kuenzel.html).
17. (http://berlin.icf.de/~inscape/lullus/lull_dos.html).
18. Frances A. Yates, Lull and Bruno: Collected Essays, Volume I (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), 7.
19. David Cope, Experiments in Musical Intelligence (Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions. 1996), 2.
20. Internet address: (http://www.thing.de/projekte/7%3A9%23/mozart.html).
21. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels (1726: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960), 148-50.
22. Borges, in Labyrinths, 51-58.
23. Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (New York: Bantam Books, 1983), 130.
24. Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, trans., The I Ching or Book of Changes (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1950).
25. Hellmut Wilhelm and Richard Wilhelm, Understanding the I Ching (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1960), 119.
26. Ibid.. 49.
27. Richard Kostelanetz, John Cage (ex)plain(ed) (New York: Schirmer Books, 1996), 77.
28. Peter Gena and Jonathan Brent, eds., A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday (New York: C. F. Peters Corporation, 1982), 86.
29. John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD for Harpsichords and Computer-generated Sound Tapes (New York: Nonesuch records, 1969), liner notes to LP record.
30. John Cage, I-VI (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), 1.
31. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman, John Cage: Composed in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 161.
32. Emmett Williams, My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa (London: Thames Hudson. 1992), 180-83.
33. Robert Morris: The Mind/Body Problem, exh. cat. (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1994), 180.
34. Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible, 1966-1973, exh. cal. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Galley, 1995), 48.
