{"product_id":"recursive-apologies-janet-zweig-s-text-generating-sculptures-1990-2010","title":"Recursive Apologies: Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculptures 1990-2010","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1990s, when personal computing was young and artificial intelligence was not yet in the popular imagination, artist Janet Zweig created something extraordinary and prescient: sculptures that married early computers, simple algorithms, and dot-matrix printers with mechanical parts to auto-generate streams of poetic text that moved objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker reveal how Zweig's witty contraptions were an early premonition of our current technological reality: an atmosphere of disinformation, fake news, and digital hallucinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Osman writes: “AI robs us of our imaginative faculty. Zweig’s sculptures, by contrast, gave us what we still very much need: opportunities for explorative play, the recognition of our own thought processes…and the potential to see the world as a site for creative collaboration.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichly illustrated, \u003cem\u003eRecursive Apologies: Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculpture \u003c\/em\u003epresents these works alongside the sources that inspired them. With a recursive design by Ben Denzer that mirrors the very concepts it explores, the book offers both a visual archive and a reflection on our ongoing relationship with thinking machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexts by Johanna Drucker, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Ben Denzer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Inventory Press, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 144 pages, 54 color images, 9 × 9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-94-175393-4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48782879621374,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1681\/2497\/files\/recursive_drawdown_christophersleboda.jpg?v=1791571327","url":"https:\/\/draw-down.com\/products\/recursive-apologies-janet-zweig-s-text-generating-sculptures-1990-2010","provider":"Draw Down","version":"1.0","type":"link"}