$100 from each sale will be donated to WYSO 91.3, the Yellow Springs NPR affiliate, in support of the important community and reporting work the station produces every day.
19”x13” Printed on 100% cotton rag, signed, numbered, and stamp-authenticated by the artist. Print is delivered in a sturdy mailing tube. Comes with copy of tag displayed with art during the exhibit. Only 5 prints will be made from this run. Please allow 10–15 business days for production and delivery.
Art description: The foundational interface of organized knowledge, these standardized cards indexed entire libraries with a mere typewriter and cardstock. Kept in wooden drawers and held in place with metal rods, they required the physical navigation of flipping, scanning, and interpreting structured information. The system distributed intellectual order across thousands of sources, and finding a book became a tactile act of search and discovery, mediated by furniture and classification logic. As a precursor to digital search, the card catalog reveals how information retrieval was once spatial, manual, and deeply embodied.
$100 from each sale will be donated to WYSO 91.3, the Yellow Springs NPR affiliate, in support of the important community and reporting work the station produces every day.
19”x13” Printed on 100% cotton rag, signed, numbered, and stamp-authenticated by the artist. Print is delivered in a sturdy mailing tube. Comes with copy of tag displayed with art during the exhibit. Only 5 prints will be made from this run. Please allow 10–15 business days for production and delivery.
Art description: The foundational interface of organized knowledge, these standardized cards indexed entire libraries with a mere typewriter and cardstock. Kept in wooden drawers and held in place with metal rods, they required the physical navigation of flipping, scanning, and interpreting structured information. The system distributed intellectual order across thousands of sources, and finding a book became a tactile act of search and discovery, mediated by furniture and classification logic. As a precursor to digital search, the card catalog reveals how information retrieval was once spatial, manual, and deeply embodied.