➘Dig Archive

An archived collection of digitized media art, text, zines, videos, and other saved works from around the net, and beyond.

booklet spread showing a Commodore computer screen at an angle with text on left and BASIC code on right.

CHULLACHAQUI – INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL

PDF of artworks and interview with Mariotti on his 1981 - 1987 interactive installations and software art.

Cover of booklet with blue title Alt-Text as Poetry Workbook

Alt Text As Poetry

An exploration of alt-text toward making online communities more accessible, fun, and welcoming

cover page of a paper titled The Arming of Desire - Counterculture and Computer Revolution by Lee Felsenstein

The Arming of Desire - Counterculture and Computer Revolution

A personal and empowering non-corporate narrative on the computer revolution through artistic, technical, visionary and analytical means.

Yellow cover and back jacket with title New Art/Science Affinities

New Art/Science Affinities

A mega compilation of interviews and studio visits with artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

An image of the corner of a crumbling Toynbeed tile embedded in cement, with the decaying text Toynbee in Kubrick’s Resurrect On… in red, white, blue and yellow above the title Recipes for Disaster.

Recipes for Disaster: Asphalt Mosaics

A guide to creating permanent mosaic installations in the streets, inspired by Toynbee Tiles.

pink cover with white text and title A Practical Guide to ASSEMBLIES, NAVEL

A Practical Guide to ASSEMBLIES: Caring and Collaborative Learning Groups

ASSEMBLIES are community-led learning groups that form around a theme, practice, project or experiment for a seasonal period.

a strange hand drawn cover of a “coloring book” featuring a face and some abstract shapes and many words. At the top it says “at the mall”

Ciat Lonbarde Coloring Book

Coloring book, from Ciat Lonbarde

Mocante instrument manual page mostly with wall of text and blue diagram of the instrument at center

Ciat Lonbarde Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Eurorack modules manuals

Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Eurorack module manuals.

notations and instructions for John Zorn’s game piece performance work COBRA, depicting signs and their meanings

Notes and notations on John Zorn’s Cobra game piece

Various collected articles and notation systems and notes on John Zorn’s game piece Cobra.

cover of publication with many words written in background in hand such as activism and “keep it public” and “intellectual” and the title Collective Action Archive on top

Collective Action Archive

A small publication on art and activist collectives in their own words.

Cover of a brochure with the title Community Memory and description, images of networked computers and the bullet points to Read and Add Messages, Make a Connection, Share your Ideas

Community Memory flyers and brochures

A large collection of materials relating to Community Memory, the first public computer bulletin board.

Cover page for The Tom Swift Terminal: A Convivial Cybernetic Device

The Tom Swift Terminal: A Convivial Cybernetic Device

A description of Illich’s concept of Convivial Design and its relation to the computer, as well as information to build a basic computer terminal.

cover of brochure Making a Cotton Mattress with black and white image of group holding up a homemade mattress and text describing purpose

Making A Cotton Mattress

Exactly what it states, a USDA pamphlet with technical information on building a mattress from scratch.

Cover of Counter Cloud Action Plan with wavy purple text on green blob background

Counter Cloud Action Plan

A wiki-to-PDF from Dundee on trans-feminist sysadmin’ing, counter-cloud actions, and computational sustainability

cover image of square book with title Culture Breakers, Alternatives and Other Numbers in squared up lines

Culture Breakers, Alternatives and Other Numbers

Describes “designs for living lightly on a small planet”.

Introduction to Printing in the Darkroom over a light gradient and a black and white image below of mountains and river and clouds, labeled Ansel Adams: The Tetons and the Snake River (1942)

Introduction to Printing in the Darkroom

Intro to Printing in the Darkroom.

Cover of zine with hand bubbled title A User’s guide to Demanding the Impossible and line crossing out Demanding

A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible

A zine from December 2010 by UK students protesting against government cuts, intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action.

First page of article with a Susan Kare drawing style of a house smiling with the old Apple logo of the 1980s/90s

This is Not my Beautiful House: Examining the Desktop Metaphor, 1980 - 1995

Article on the history of the desktop metaphor, originally published for online journal Continent.

digital composition of digital map icons scattered on a gray background

Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome Artbase

An analysis of digital preservation practices of the Rhizome ArtBase.

An icon of a speaker, representing sound

Distances (soundtrack)

A soundtrack to the short film of the same name.

A composite black and white image of overlapping shadows of people at sea and ships in the background.

Distances

A remixed video using public domain film and audio on the theme of early 20th century American immigration.

a collage of a booklet titled Doom Modding workshop held open into the void with Babycastles logo in background

Doom Modding Workshop

A workshop in DOOM Modding for Babycastles Academy.

A spacey dog plays the Buchla music easel while flying space ship labeled Easel Weasel in outer space

Programming and Meta-Programming The Electro Organism

This is much more than an operating manual for the Buchla Music Easel instrument, it’s also a trip, and a piece of technical and music writing.

cover image for manual with processed cooked image of Arduino

Laboratory Manual For Embedded Controllers

A lab manual textbook for learning to program embedded controllers with Arduino and C.

Multicolored rows with title Zine 21 at top and FHM 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in in layers underneath, with background various digital glitched images

Feminist Hack Meetings Zine ’21

A zine documenting five Feminist Hack Meetings at Varia in 2021 on topics including zineing, feminist servers, and radio ensembles.

A person wearing a VR headset, tongue extended, about to lick a stump in the forest.

Finals Fantasy

Speculative projects for game arts students by a host of indie, DIY and experimental game designers and collectives.

First page of Fingerpainting for the 21st Century pamphlet with text and insert photo showing a monitor and connected drawing tablet with color pallete

Fingerpainting For The 21st Century

A short pamphlet on Harold Cohen’s last iteration of the project AARON, his software collaborator for producing digital paintings.

first page of pdf on Fletcher’s Where I Lived, and What I Lived For video art project, with text and a screenshot of Harrell recording a boy sitting playing an accordion among the trees

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Introduction, screenshots and captions for artist Harrell Fletcher’s video project, an homage to Thoreau’s Walden.

Page spread showing text and a black and white image of the FOOD storefront

FOOD

An out of print and hard to find exhibition catalog devoted to FOOD, a collaborative artist-run restaurant in New York City.

magazine spread with article on left and image of scrawled pile on right along with a man on horse and EAGLE SQUARE red text on blue and yellow background behind the pile

Fort Thunder, A Grainy Imagery In An Aura Of Folly

Article on the eponymous Rhode Island warehouse DIY space Fort Thunder.

Guru Rugu with beautiful bushy beard looks into the camera, a mic off center, about to lead a meditation over the radio.

Guru Rugu On KCHUNG!! Free Yourself From Heavy Handed Art!!

Guru Rugu leads an online guided meditation on KCHUNG Radio for OccupyLA

Cover image for Game Poems book with title text and blocky shapes

Game Poems - Videogame Design as Lyric Practice

Poetry as a lens for creating and exploring video games.

Blue and white cover of manual for Create Your Own Games with Game Maker

Create Your Own Games With Game Maker - User Manual

The manual for Game Maker software for MS-DOS by Recreational Software Designs, containing features that democratized the creation of video games.

Cover of teaching guide for Gee’s Bend, The Architecture of the Quilt and African-American Quiltmaking Traditions

Gee’s Bend, The Architecture of the Quilt and African-American Quiltmaking Traditions - Resource Guide for Teachers

A guide with info about ten quilts created by women in the Gee’s bend community.

Zine cover giant letters with title Glorious Trainwrecks X Baby castles

Glorious Trainwrecks X Babycastles Zine

Zine from the salon-style event curated by and featuring many members from the Glorious Trainwrecks community for an exhibition at Babycastles art space in NYC.

A robotic garbage tank empties collects trash while a person with raised arms wearing a control unit demonstrates raising the trash to the robot.

The Golemic Approach

The concept of the golemic approach taken to the design of automatic devices is introduced and compared with the current “robotic” approach.

an audio icon

Guru Rugu and Veranda Moot On KCHUNG!! Answers Are Not The Answer!!

A beautiful guided meditation for Occupy, possibly the best only guided meditation that directly relates to the goals and strategies of Occupy.

a screenshot of a page titled Harrell Fletcher’s Art Ideas at the top and then the ideas below, after an intro

Harrell Fletcher’s Art Ideas

A list of 99 project and exhibit ideas listed on artist Harrell Fletcher’s website, circa 2006.

Hand drawn zine cover with outline title Hosting With and people’s names below

Hosting With

A conversation around collective hosting practices in the context of art servers, community servers and feminist servers

A giant stuffed animal with a computer duct taped to its stomach is the host of a video game, played by someone whose back is turned to the camera

How to Babycastles

What is a Babycastles and how do you do it?

A low lit wall with holes in the wall and a cable coming out of a hole down the wall.

A Brief Invocation By Guru Rugu - Artist Problems

A recording of an invocation by Guru Rugu at art space Human Resources in LA.

album cover for Hal McGee’s The Microcassette Diaries - a hand holding a microcassette recorder with thumb on red record button

The Joy Project - Electronic Cottage

A series of interviews with artist extraordinaire and audio assemblage mastro/Electronic Cottage founder, Hal McGee.

box cover art for Klik & Play showing dragon, tank, cards, jester and more items exploding out of a computer mouse

Klik & Play Users Guide

The most user-friendly, intuitive and democratic game-making tool, still yet to be surpassed decades later.

Cover of article with photo of a woman in a plastic-lined tent with the sign stating LIBRARY above and books in tubs

Librarian Is My Profession: A History of the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street

A compelling read on the rise and life of the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street.

Cover pages and TOC of Machine Project Guide to Starting Your Own Art Space with abstract design showing green land with brown, orange and red shapes.

Machine Project Guide to Starting Your Own Art Space

A practical DIY guide published by Machine Project upon closing their non-profit.

Black and white scene of funeral procession from a century ago. People marching in front of large buildings and looking at camera, with old car with mounted black square on car’s grill.

Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Funeral

Photographs from the funeral of “suprematist” painter Kazimir Malevich.

a messy graffitied poster with dripping unreadable tags, and a construction barrier in front

Barry McGee slideshow at BAMPFA 2013 - Carbon Festival

Barry McGee’s narrated graffiti slideshow at BAMPFA, part of Carbon Festival 2013.

A woman with eyes closed shouts.

20 Meditations In 20 Minutes SHOUTED!!

A video excerpt documenting a live performance guided meditation by Guru Rugu.

first page of article Open Collective Memory Systems including black and white drawing of a child pushing an overly large object labeled Treasure Island

Open Collective Memory Systems

An intro to cybernetic information systems for “community human service agencies and change-networks”.

brown and offwhite cover of Metropolis Magazine, showing a vision of a futurist city with high rises and traffic and highways between buildings

Metropolis Magazine

Writing on the making of the movie Metropolis, photocollages, and behind-the-scenes views.

a printed poster with expressionistic style for the movie Metropolis with title and visage of the Maschinenmensch

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis - Poster

A poster from Fritz Lang’s movie Metropolis.

first page of article with journal title HYPERALLERGIC at top and article title Some Notes on New Expressions and a digital collage with square sad face and other mixed digital collage

Some Notes on “New Expressions”

Jacob Ciocci’s online commission for NewHive is a how-to guide for creating “animated paintings”.

First page of pamphlet with intro info on No-Input Mixer Board mixing and an image of a mixer at top

No Input Mixer Workshop

A practical how-to guide for creating noise music using mixers with their output patched to their input, creating audio feedback loops.

Guru Rugu with bushy beard sits on the left side of the frame, holding a microphone and speaking to his radio audience.

Guru Rugu on KCHUNG!! Occupy Your Life!!

Cover of alternative newspaer BOOG CITY with title Occupy at One, photo of crowd of people centered, and front page headlines Stacking Up. Betsy Fagin on Occupy and The People’s Library and Never-ending Participation Activism and Occupy Wall Street

Occupy at One

A community newspaper from the East Village with its an issue dedicated to Occupy Wall Street on its one-year anniversary.

a poster labeled Occupy Together, Hand Signals with illustrations under the categories Speaking and Feeling

Occupy Together: Hand Signals

The different hand signals used in the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly.

First page of letter beginning with title An Open Letter To Art Critics

An Open Letter To Art Critics

An open letter to critics writing about political art (2012) On the occasion of Creative Time’s Summit 2012.

a paper circuit board in natural-looking organic shapes, black and white

Paper Circuits

Paper circuit instructions to construct three different kinds of experimental audio modules.

Screenshot of the Phoning It In website with the title of the show and a drawing of a phone and other icons

Amps for Christ on Phoning It In, 06/06/2007

Power violence and home electronics pioneer Henry Barnes, better known as Amps for Christ, performs music and talks music over the telephone.

screenshot of website for Phoning It In, episode on Oneohtrix Point Never. A hand drawn doodle of a phone handset, curly cable, title of the show, a guitar, keyboard, and more.

Oneohtrix Point Never on Phoning It In, 07/02/2009

Musician Oneohtrix Point Never performs a vapor-heavy music explosion over the landline telephone call-in show.

screenshot of the website for Phoning It In, circa 2007, with an episode on Natural Snow Buildings. The usual drawing of a telephone handset with cable and some doodles is there.

Natural Snow Buildings on Phoning It In, 02/19/2007

A smoldering set over the phone from French experimental music cult favorite Natural Snow Buildings.

Cover of a brochure showing a man with view of his brain, thinking of some information that spirals out in text, and explosions with words Forums, Respond, Share, Change

A Pocket Guide to Community Memory

Apparently a paper overlay and postcard for the computer terminal of the visionary Community Memory bulletin board system.

Plain cover with title Public Engagement Artist-in-Residence, Machine Project, Hammer Museum

Machine Project Public Engagement Artist In Residence Report

Report from groundbreaking, visionary LA art space Machine Project’s year in residency at the Hammer Museum.

Cover of the Retro Zer0 Hacker’s Handbook with an interlocking elephant design in a photo.

Retro Zer0 Hacker’s Handbook

A manual originally created for the Retro Zer0, a CP/M compatible computer meant to be easy to learn, modify and preserve.

Harold Cohen looks on at a plotter machine (Aaron) plotting a drawing of a picture of a woman in orange and red, with a finished drawing mounted on the wall nearby

The Robotic Artist: Aaron in Living Color, Harold Cohen at The Computer Museum

A publication in conjunction with artist/programmer Harold Cohen and his software AARON for his 1995 exhibition.

Cover of Rolling Egg with a photo and article about the Five Crates of Rats

Rolling Egg

Four issues of a free rapid publication created at and for the Providence Fringe Fest by legendary “Mothers News” publisher Jacob Berendes.

Dark gray and white cover with hand drawn elongated circuit board-like lettering with title Sacred Stacks The Art of Cyborg Community, and drawn computer chips underneath

Sacred Stack: The Art of Cyborg Community

A handbook put together growing out of conversations on the intersection of community and technology.

Magazine cover with title Seeds, issue 1, and rhizomatic kaleidoscopic silver patterning in center

Seeds Magazine Issue 1

Issue 1 of a magazine on generative art and software.

Magazine cover with neon 3d shapes all over including 3d models of drinks, palm trees, hamburger, cupcakes and torus, star and ellipsoid shapes

Seeds Magazine Issue 2

Issue 2 of a magazine on generative art and software.

Abstract magazine cover with title Seeds, Issue 3, and blue, orange, gray and white polygons tesseract tiled, filled with disparate texturing

Seeds Magazine Issue 3

Issue 3 of a magazine on generative art and software.

magazine cover with title Seeds and issue 4 and circular arrangement of variously colored circles centered and arrayed out

Seeds Magazine Issue 4

Issue 4 of a magazine on generative art and software.

cover of siasat zine with title and subtitle and year 2011, beta version, written by ruang rupa

siasat - a short tactical guide for artist-run initiatives

A short tactical guide for artist-run initiatives from the Javanese curatorial art collective.

Cover of Solar Powered Media zine with smiling sun and an audio cable

Solar Powered Media

A zine about building solar-powered digital media storage infrastructure and sharing it on-line with the rest of the world.

a page from Songs showing possible lyrics, and a visual score including the phrase NOISE HELL

Spells

Handmade “Coloring books” from the Synth Mall website, by Peter Blasser of Ciat-Lonbarde, along with music scores.

A group of people sit on the floor in a magic circle around Guru Rugu, who holds a microphone.

30 MEDITATIONS IN 30 MINUTES SHOUTED!!

Documentation of some of the exquisite corpse shouted guided meditations led by Guru Rugu at Machine Project.

book standing at three-quarters view with giant X printed on yellow background

This is (X)

A DIY urban handbook to inspire architects, citizens, urban planners, politicians, cultural platforms and organisations to think “bottom-up” instead of “top-down”.

Three white dice with dollar bills stuffed in the top, above a blurry photo of dice and money on a mat.

Three Club Lores

Original zine from Mark Price of Space 1026, circa 2014. Part of an exhibition that included Dice Crew at The Galleries of Moore.

Cover of the toki pona book with title toki pona in 76 illustrated lessons and a smiley face logo, no eyes, and 3 light beams.

toki pona in 76 illustrated lessons

An early manual on learning the language toki pona.

Magazine spread of article Tom Swift Lives! with drawings making up the circuit for a physical dummy terminal with keyboard and monitor hooked up to a modem.

Tom Swift Lives! and Convivial Design

A printed page spread with description and drawings of the Tom Swift Terminal and an insert on Convivial Design.

Red cover of a magazine with title trans formation and a line dissection the title, with subtitle categories arts, communication and environment. A listing of contents below and a giant 1 for the volume and 1 for the issue along with the year 1953 listed.

Trans/Formation: Arts, Communication, Environment - Volume 1

[Devoted] neither to art nor to architecture but to a proposition that the arts and the sciences could be brought together in a common enterprise.

Cover of booklet showing flags of the world, black and white reproduction

Turtle Bunting, A LOGO Vexillological Reader

A booklet on programming in LOGO with example programs for creating various flags.

Title and first page of Exhibition Strategies for Videogames in Art Institutions

Exhibit Strategies for Videogames in Art Institutions

A much needed and well-written guide to contextualizing and exhibiting video games in museums and art spaces.

cover of book with image of graffiti-covered train car on an elevated train line above a road filled with traffic

Viral Art

Early writing on how the internet shapes street art and graffiti.