October 13, 2007
Beall Guest Book
One of our goals for the Grand Text Auto show at the Beall Center for Art and Technology is to create connections between the blog and the gallery. This Guest Book is one of them, which Ivan Rosero and Noah put together.
A Hewlett Packard DraftMaster II sits in the Beall gallery, right now.
Through precise paper control (front and back) and print head control (side to side) this printer uses a pen to write on paper. (A short video of a similar printer is available at the HP Museum.)
Next to the printer is a computer. Visitor comments left on it appear in the comments thread of this post. They are also written out — by pen, if not by hand — by the plotter in the gallery. Similarly, comments left on this page over the Internet (traditional blog comments) are also written out by the DraftMaster in the gallery.
As each comment appears, the Beall docents cut off the new length of paper from the DraftMaster — then tack it to the wall. Next time Noah is up at the Beall he’ll take a picture of that version of our (unbound) guest book and post it to GTxA.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Great Show!!! I love the Joystick, and so does my daughter.
Awesome!!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
It’s interesting to be here — but it would be even better to have more information about these pieces.
October 13th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I’m certainly enjoying the show!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
i feel bad about shaking the baby. otherwise, i enjoyed the show a lot!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I’m up at the gallery and it’s a pleasure to watch the public interact with the pieces.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Over the course of the show it should be interesting to watch these “pen written” (but not hand written) texts fill the gallery wall space.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I wonder what this big thing next to me is???? It’s like an overgrown printer!!!
Mmmm
October 13th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Wonderful show.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
the words are terrifying as they fly in your face
October 17th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
what is memory… words??
October 18th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
[…] the walls outside the gallery, and the wide world beyond. I also really like how the blog literally has a presence there too, with gallery visitors’ guest entries showing up h […]
October 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
My goodness this thing is huge!
October 20th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Dark. Cold. Technology? A light shining in a dim room – is it a metaphor for the way technology will shape our society? Maybe the virtual and the real are blurred better when our vision cannot decide how to direct our perceptions.
October 20th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I loved it! When poetry and technology, right and left brain combine, something believed impossible becomes possible..the result is crazy :)
October 20th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
very fun time
October 24th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 24th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
i had to come here for a field trip for my art class. it was very nice and air conditioned compared to the hotness out side.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Clearly, air conditioning and football both rule. This kind of insight gives me hope for the youth of Southern California, who appreciate both the comforts afforded us by modern technology and the importance of a strong civic spirit.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
daniel oh sucks at atari
October 26th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Phil Campos loves the Beall Center and CAL STATE LONG BEACH. GO BEACH!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Time enjoyed wasting is not time wasted.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
A wise man washes his hands after he pees. A wiser man doesn’t pee on his hands.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
That couple needs marriage counseling. AWKWARD.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
pong high score of 4 whatwhat!!! awesome interactive technology mixed with art = a wonderful day (: there’s nothing like playing pong with a 6 foot joystick and a big red button.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
you’re going to need a bigger boat
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
A gallery to the paradigm of technology to escape reality. We here have created art to display how the world of fantasy interacts with reality. Fantasy: the unreal. We can create lifelong obsessions with fantasy. But what is the fantasy? Is it the culmination neuronal activity, a construction of chemical changes due to electrical signals in the brain? To think of it in that way, we are no more than just an extension of the electronic video game, more electrical signals due to reactions. Or is there more? Do we have in us a want or need to escape the mundane and the cold inevitable? Alas, we reach into fantasy to remove ourselves from this world… Maybe somewhere in fantasy lies the answer to the question.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I had begun to forget that text is visual, viewing graphics takes great effort, effort produces a visual and visuals engender text.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Hello How are you?
November 6th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
THIS WAS AWESOME!
November 6th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
test
November 6th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
hello
November 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
university
November 6th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
random
November 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
VRST 2007, woo! SPRING BREAK!!
November 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
testing test printer
November 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
if you graph any system in nature patterns emerge
November 7th, 2007 at 3:27 am
It was better than CATS, I want to see it again and again.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
the best exhibit I’ve ever visited. i will definitely come back soon! -Kenji CSULB
November 8th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
It is very dark in here. Dark in a good way.Not a scary way.
Great show. I will come back on Thursday, OH thats tomorrow.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
hello from the beall
November 8th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Long Beach State is for losers!!
November 10th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Intresting!
November 10th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Long Beach State is a joke. Especially the graphic design program!
November 13th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Very cool exhibit. Everyone needs a life size Atari’
November 13th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I was a total n00b before coming to Grand Text Auto!!! Now I’m just sort of a n00b…
November 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
i love screen, its such an interesting feeling to be surrounded by text that way
November 20th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
test printer
November 20th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
test printer
November 20th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
testing 1,2,3
November 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
naming calls…
November 21st, 2007 at 12:47 pm
fuck.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:52 pm
testing printer
November 21st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
The problem with combining experimental literature and interactive technology is that people who write experimental literature are the ones who create it. lots of intresting ideas combined in fairly borring and banally pretentious ways
November 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
test
November 27th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
test
November 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
12 hours is a long time on a plane. but a short time on a hot young girl of no more than 17 years
December 6th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Very cool exhibit!!
December 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
i love cat moore
December 6th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
i enjoy this
December 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
i don’t know how to work half of this stuffs. :P
December 6th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Red red wine
December 6th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
that is a bigggg joystick!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Wonderful exhibit — thank you for allowing Western high school to visit — great experience to expose the kids to.
December 11th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Awesome! I love how interactive the art is!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
i like this place
December 13th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Hi guys! I read the obfuscated code paper and it made me happy.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
a blog crashing into something is…unique….
December 13th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
hmmm……………….ok, joy stick.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
hit me with your joy stick
December 14th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
:)