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".

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	*  STORY TELLER INSTALLATION  *
	*  AT PLAN B, SEP/OCT 1999    *
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	(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.
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	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.
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	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.