sync.ed
sync.ed (abbr. for sync edition) is a publishing label run by Andreas Bülhoff concerned with the intersection of text and technologies. Using print-on-demand and print-at-home methods, sync.ed publishes post-digital printed matter that work as poetic devices to reflect upon and unravel technological and material programmings: Bookworks, poetry, and rapid publishing as ways to sync with and destabilize net time!
Andreas Bülhoff, Every Book is a House, sync.ed, 2023 © Andreas Bülhoff
Yesterday, I saw a post on Mastodon about using ChatGPT to make ASCII art. I fiddled around with it for a bit during office hours, prompting it to produce depictions of a book. The results were weird, looking mostly like houses. When I returned home, I made a book. – 03.04.2023
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Andreas Bülhoff, Will It Run Doom?, sync.ed, 2023 © Andreas Bülhoff
Every frame of a speedrun on Doom's first map layed out on double spreads to adapt the infamous meme to the technology of the book.
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Andreas Bülhoff, cfworks, sync.ed, 2022 © Andreas Bülhoff
cfworks is a Python script that was able to scrape the user data of Twitter accounts and turn them into print ready pdfs of 300 pages each to be ordered in the pocketbook format of Lulu – until Musk took over and changed the policies.
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