Partly media archaeological sketch, partly system poetry, this artist book compiles a subjective selection of so-called ›textonyms‹ – a side effect of T9 encoding technology. T9 (short for ›text on 9 keys‹) is a predictive text technology developed in 1995. It was designed to optimize text entry on 3×4 numeric cell phone keypads commonly used at that time. On these standard 12-key layouts the number keys from ›2‹ to ›9‹ are assigned to a group of three to four letters each. In T9, a sequence of single keystrokes is matched against a stored dictionary. Words associated to the entered sequence of numbers are then presented to the user to choose from. Coincidentally and inherent to the working principle of T9, one sequence of keystrokes can potentially represent many different words. This guide book compiles an incomplete and subjective selection of these ›textonyms‹ to be found in the English language. It exposes the collateral poetry, incidental truisms, and semantic comedy that are latently lurking in encoding and compression technologies like T9.

T9 Numerology

Cognitive Code
Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain

Cloud Cosmogram

Entwerfen mit System
Studienhefte Problemorientiertes Design (No. 10)

Visuelle Zeitgestaltungen
Bildwelten des Wissens (Volume 15)

Augmented Spaces and Maps
Das Design von kartenbasierten Interfaces

Ghosts of Transparency
Shadows cast and shadows cast out

東京 シフト / Tokyo Shift

Artwork as Institution. Stephen Willats

Wild Thing
Unordentliche Prozesse in Design und Wissenschaft

9 Hysterical Media Truths You’ll Never Believe!

Study, Not Critique

smartphone object biography

Sensorium of Animals

Shift Register
READER / RESPONSES

Palais des Beaux Arts Wien
Issue 7.1 of continent.

How To Build A Lie (Lecture/Video)

Impossible Escapes
Evasive Strategies, Elusive Procedures, and Evacuation Plans

Designing Thinking
Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960

Manifestationen im Entwurf
Design – Architektur – Ingenieurwesen

How to Build A Lie

Reset Modernity!

Unmaking: 5 Anxieties

Lost & Found
Issue 5.1 of continent.

Ästhetik der Materialität

Poetics and Politics of Data
Ambivalenz des Lebens in der Datengesellschaft

Eighty-Seven Questions on Artistic Research

All we need is (Art) Research?

Theorien des Designs
zur Einführung

Three Questions On Media Criticality

Von der Dampf- zur Nebelmaschine
Szenografische Strategien zur Vergegenwärtigung von Industriegeschichte am Beispiel der Ruhrtriennale

Forschungsskizzen
Einblicke in Forschungspraktiken der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW

Wer gestaltet die Gestaltung?
Praxis, Theorie und Geschichte des partizipatorischen Designs

Long Lost Friends
Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Design‑, Medien- und Wissenschaftsforschung
