book dead book dead work art created science fiction novelist artist publisher work consists line semi autobiographical electronic poem gibson embedded artist book gibson text focused ethereal nature memories title taken photo album principal notoriety arose fact poem stored disk programmed single use similarly pages artist book treated chemicals gradual fading words images book exposure light origin concept impetus initiation project publisher museum quality manuscripts motivated disregard art world suggested abstract painter art book computer despite heavy art world resume bored abstract paintings took suggestion seriously developed years written fan letter novelist admired pair struck telephone friendship shortly project minds contacted recruited gibson project exemplified gibson deep advanced new_york_times expressed designed challenge conventional notions books art money collectors people said think pure hype fun maybe interesting gibson thinks memory believes real actually project manifested poem written gibson incorporated artist book created work collaborative conceptual art poetry gibson stated design eventually included supposedly self disk intended display text eat dilemma pose order register copyright book send copies united_states library congress order classify read process necessarily destroy creators initially intended computer virus declined considering potential damage computer systems release sit pay attention going work premiered december kitchen art space new_york_city performance known transmission consisted public incomplete reading poem recorded simultaneously transmitted cities poem inscribed magnetic disk vacuum sealed event commencement programmed exposure air contrary numerous colourful reports disk embedded artist book actually strict sense academic researcher reported text poem released day edgy new_york_city based electronic bulletin board considers interface dark web global internet ideal initial host text spread rapidly point anonymous later email gibson use email time fans sent copies text machine precise manner text obtained unclear initial text known attached introductory note claimed credit claimed troupe students representing attended transmission recording screen displayed text accompaniment reading speculates group included persona associates according account ostensibly endorsed post february students poem tape hours uploaded according account founder prior transmission betrayal trust yielded text declined elaborate declared liberty disclose owes transmission continuing availability complex network individuals communities markets technologies motives heroic reading events saved solely virtue knight today file found messages web readers inevitably encounter false leads work original act allow text stage essential points artifacts memory technology struggle text text december sixteenth anniversary original transmission files working scholarly team released emulated run entire poem derived original loaned collector hour worth footage shot source text posted debut mystery remained hidden years tried hack code program source code lost long ago team files created extensive website tools resources crack code collaborated phd student calling aid figure program works creating cracking code challenge enlisted participants solve intentional poem exchange prizes code successfully cracked late july present consequently visual effect displays poem finished ruse visual effect result running memory bit abandoning text memory fake genetic code written disk resembles data blocks position bits split bit taking low bits second bits bit bits high bits second second bit individually taking power bits text stored string variable program visible noticeable text compressed simple final storage main program code necessary order prevent second running program run program simply long dna like code certain position archival documents suggest original plan use series corrupt point development change use fake genetic code keeping visual motifs book genetic code bits higher natural dna sequence known weakness memory dump obtained similar tool program loaded code reverse engineered block exhibited regular pattern repeated text original compression hide letter frequencies scramble display exactly letter frequencies underlying content editions book published limited editions deluxe small publishing new_york_city deluxe edition came metal case designed look like buried inside book ragged pages hand bound stained book gives impression having survived fire described black box recovered unspecified disaster edition includes pages dna sequences set double columns lines like bible paper depict work accompanied imagery pistol camera instances simple line drawings allusions gibson contribution deluxe edition set letter printed heavyweight text final pages book fused section cut centre containing self text gibson poem work computer programmer assisted founders deluxe edition originally priced later copy unique degree hand finished elements small edition sold like deluxe edition set single columns printed text reproduction printed canon laser printer edition spectrum enclosed box bronze boxed collectors copy released fewer deluxe editions extant exact number unknown source considerable mystery victoria possesses deluxe edition numbered publicly accessible copy deluxe edition available rare books division small copy resides michigan new_york_city hosts promotional victoria copy exhibited display entitled book held museum 20th april october copy subsequently included display entitled copy book exhibited exhibition ninety gibson point claimed seen copy printed book speculation copies actually copies documented gibson signature noted copy held university_of_oxford acquired copy archive papers related work poem construction book subject matter poem share connection decay memory light critic asserts understood organized ideas death gibson father disappearance absence book sense nature text theme form poem detailed description objects including photo album camera took pictures essentially nostalgia speaker presumably gibson feels details family history descriptions houses lived cars drove pets starts moves today possibly works makes reader aware tend accept contemporary media version past way scene change time past version time original form text poem supposed fade page gibson words eat enclosed book reader left memory text like speaker left memory home town family moving canada south_carolina course poem gibson vietnam war mechanism poem contains motif mechanism described forever dividing form camera ancient gun speaker hands technology mechanism agent memory transforms experience allegedly objective records photography agent life death moment lethal bullets likened life giving qualities sex shooting gun time mouth woman poem merely memory memories formed experience memories compare reproduced recordings poem mechanism strongly associated recording replace experience memories constitute identities mechanism represents destruction self recordings cameras devices recording guns instruments destruction mechanism dividing memory identity life recordings death critical reception influence extremely influential artistic community appreciate potential electronic media extent entered public consciousness caused fierce controversy art world museums libraries challenged established notions art literature intended raised significant problems seeking preserve benefit future generations key book mystery particularly received critics digital media theorist describing evocative published 1990s professor english literature claimed importance stems texts fact media work explicitly realm dead english professor argues poem form dna reveals gibson life novel repetition father grandfather lives cambridge history twentieth century english literature described poem text praised inventive use digital format academic remarked paper works read resisted fellow authors institutional environment time finds outlets media lecture exhibition new_york_city drew allusion project work french literary figures philosopher author absence book poet 19th century forerunner response analysis collaborators responding historical condition language modern skepticism gibson commented honest god academics think sort big time french philosophy guys worship pop culture wrong
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