David Link

Dr David Link is an artist, programmer and conceptualist whose practice explores the relationships between computation, language, machines and human thought. His work combines software, generative systems, media archaeology and philosophical research, often reconstructing forgotten or obsolete technologies to reveal their contemporary significance. His Poetry Machine, an autonomous text-generating system, was commissioned by and entered the permanent collection of ZKM, while his reconstruction of Christopher Strachey’s 1952 Love Letters programme received the British Computer Society’s Tony Sale Award. His installations have been exhibited at ZKM, dOCUMENTA(13), the Vienna Biennale, Centre Pompidou and numerous international institutions. His research focuses on algorithmic artefacts, generative literature and the archaeology of computation.

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