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Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) is a work of art created by science fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992. The work consists of a 300-line semi-autobiographical electronic poem by Gibson, embedded in an artist's book by Ashbaugh.
The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original artist’s book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; an emulation of Gibson’s included poem in its original born-and-die-digital form (it ran from a diskette once before an encryption-like effect made the ...
Agrippa (a book of the dead) Agrippa. Agrippa (a book of the dead) was published in 1992 in two limited editions ( Deluxe and Small) by Kevin Begos, Jr., Publishing, New York, New York. The deluxe edition comes in a heavy case designed to look like a buried relic and includes pages of DNA sequences set in double columns of 42-lines each like ...
Of course I dutifully downloaded, read and stored the “Agrippa” poem once it was “hacked”, but that was it. (It took a long time before I had an idea what the book itself looked like, though.) So recently I discovered The Agrippa Files site, and downloaded both the disk image and the movie of the Agrippa disk running in emulation.
A computer floppy disk encrypted with a virus contains an autobiographical text by William Gibson relating to the death of his father when the author was aged six, triggered by the discovery of his father's old photograph album, a type marketed by Kodak in the 1920s under the name 'Agrippa'.
William Gibson. artist: Dennis Ashbaugh. Publisher: Kevin Begos Publishing, 1992. license: Standard Copyright. Offsite Links: The Agrippa Files, Screencast of Agrippa running, Disk Image Copy of Original. Add to Bookshelf. Digital Objects. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) Code Bundle (zip) (Agrippa-Disk-Image.zip) 424 KB.
17. Juli 2012 · By Harriet Staff. From HuffPo: Twenty years ago, cyberpunk novelist William Gibson published his poem "Agrippa (a book of the dead)" in an unprecedented and extraordinary way. He distributed the poem on a 3.5-inch disk stuffed into the hollowed out pages of a hand-made art book.
