Story Teller installation for OUTWEST, Plan B, 1999

updated 9 mar 2020

I've added a couple images of the actual medium, 72-column teletype paper printout from the OUTWEST or other performance. The web page (simulated teletype output) from 1999 follows. The teletype paper roll really was a bright yellow, called "canary".

   /******************************
   *                             *
   *  STORY TELLER INSTALLATION  *
   *  AT PLAN B, SEP/OCT 1999    *
   *                             *
   /******************************
   
    
   
    1. WHERE.
    2. ABOUT STORY TELLER.
    3. ABOUT ALAN TURING.
    4. ABOUT ANDREW HODGES (TURING'S BIOGRAPHER).
    5. SOURCES.
    6. ZINE FOR THE SHOW. INCLUDES COMPLETE OUTPUT
    6. OF THE STORY TELLER, SIMULATED (PRINT FORMAT).
    A. THE 'ABOUT TURING' WALL INFO.
    B. THE 'ABOUT STORY TELLER' WALL INFO.
    C. TURING'S PORTRAIT IN ITA2 CHARACTER SET.
    D. TURING'S PORTRAIT ITA2 CHARACTER SET, HI RES
       ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT (850 KILO-BYTES).
   
    WHERE
    -----
    STORY TELLER IS BEING SHOWN AT THE "OUT WEST"
    SHOW, "PLAN B" GALLERY IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO,
    3 SEPT THROUGH 24 OCT, 1999. CURATED BY
    HARMONY HAMMOND, "OUT WEST" FEATURES WORK BY
    LESBIAN, GAY, TRANSGENDERED AND TWO-SPIRITED
    ARTISTS LIVING INTHE SOUTHWESTERN U.S.
   
    STORY TELLER
    ----- ------
    STORY TELLER IS MEDIA, AN AHISTORIC FORGERY,
    SOMETHING THAT IMPOSSIBLY MIGHT HAVE BEEN. IT IS
    ABOUT MEDIATION, AND ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS, AND
    ABOUT TELLING HUMAN STORIES IN AN INHUMAN WAY.
   
    THE STORY IS PRESENTED AS MULTI-HOUR PERFORMANCE
    BY THE STORY TELLER SYSTEM, CONSISTING
    OF PRINTED TEXT AND VOCALIZATIONS. THE MEDIUM IS
    1" WIDE PAPER TAPE, ABOUT 650 FEET LONG.
    SUPPORTING INFORMATION IS PRESENTED AT THE SITE.
   
    TURING
    ------
    FOR THE "OUT WEST" SHOW I'VE WRITTEN A BRIEF
    BIOGRAPHY OF ALAN TURING,
    AN OUT-OF-THE-CLOSET ATHEIST HOMOSEXUAL
    BRITISH MATHEMATICIAN EARLIER THIS CENTURY
    (1912--1954). IN 1936 HE WROTE A MATHEMATICAL
    PAPER THAT DEFINED A HYPOTHETICAL "UNIVERSAL
    MACHINE" THAT ESSENTIALLY MECHANISED WHAT WAS
    THOUGHT TO BE THE EXCLUSIVE REALM OF THE HUMAN
    MIND; DURING WORLD-WAR-TWO HE DEVISED METHODS
    AND MACHINES TO DO CODE BREAKING, WHICH WAS
    DECISIVE IN WINNING THE WAR; POST-WAR HE DESIGNED
    COMPUTERS, AND WROTE THE FIRST PROGRAMMING
    MANUAL; HE DEVOTED MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF HIS
    LIFE TO MACHINE INTELLIGENCE AND BIOLOGY, AMIDST
    A WITHERING COLD-WAR ENVIRONMENT THAT HAUNTED HIM
    UNTIL HIS SUICIDE IN 1954 AT AGE 42.
   
    ALAN HELD HIGH STANDARDS FOR HIMSELF AND THE
    WORLD, AND VALUED HONESTY ABOVE ALL ELSE. HE
    WAS UNAPOLOGETICALLY HOMOSEXUAL THROUGHOUT
    HIS LIFE, NO SMALL FEAT DURING WORLD WAR TWO
    AND THE LONG, COLD, WAR THAT FOLLOWED IT.
   
    THERE IS NO SMALL AMOUNT OF IRONY AND SYNERGY
    BETWEEN TURING'S "UNIVERSAL MACHINE" AND
    THE PAPER TAPE MEDIUM OF HIS TIME, AS USED
    IN THE STORY-TELLER SYSTEM.
   
    HODGES
    ------
    (AN ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS DEBT IS OWED TO ANDREW
    HODGES, ALAN TURING'S BIOGRAPHER, IT IS SAFE
    TO SAY WITHOUT WHOM TURING WOULD HAVE REMAINED
    AN ENIGMA... I PERSONALLY OWE HIM THANKS BECAUSE
    WITHOUT HIS BOOK MY LIFE WOULD BE POORER, NEVER
    MIND THAT MY ENTIRE 'STORY TELLER' SYSTEM AND
    THIS STORY WAS INSPIRED BY WHAT I READ OF
    TURING'S LIFE.)
   
    SOURCES.
    --------
    ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA by Andrew Hodges, 1983
    ISBN 0-671-49207-2, out of print
    A new edition is expected in 2000.
   
    ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA by Andrew Hodges, 1992
    ISBN 0-09-911641-3, UK publication
    Same as above but new preface and documents found
    since 1983.
   
    A HISTORY OF COMPUTING IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1980
    ISBN 0-12-491650-3, out of print.
    A collection of papers by many of the original
    pre-1950 participants at the dawn of the
    computer age.
   
    TURING, Andrew Hodges, 1997
    ISBN 0-75380-192-2
    Subtitled "A natural philosopher", a brief (60
    page) essay on Turings philosophy of mind,
    showing more of his wit and brilliance, and
    some of the results of his discussions with
    Wittgenstein. Obtainable from AMAZON.CO.UK
   
    ALAN TURING: THE ARCHITECT OF THE COMPUTER AGE,
    by Ted Gottfried, 1996
    ISBN 0-531-11287-X
    A brief biography intended for young students;
    what it lack in depth is made up for in its
    frank and enlightened treatment of Alan's sexuality.
    It does a decent job of explaining Alan's
    work. An excellent stealth book to sneak into
    libraries. Gottfried appears to be a prolific
    writer of biographies.
   
    INTERNET.
    --------
   
    THE ALAN TURING HOMEPAGE
    ANDREW HODGES HOMEPAGE
    BREAKING THE CODE, a play by Hugh Whitemore,
    is described here.
    AMAZON.COM, the usual monster bookstore.
    A better source of Hodges work.
    Purchase/shipping to the U.S. not a problem
    with a credit card.
    "http://www.bookshop.co.uk", overseas ordering not
    a problem.
   
   

Long lost photos

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