David Link (artist)

David Link (* 1971 in Düsseldorf ) is a German artist and media theorist.

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Link became known through authentic reconstructions of old computer technology, especially random love poetry from the Manchester University Computer from 1951, one of the earliest computers in the world. Link thus plays with the ambivalence of the Turing thesis that poetic fantasy is algorithmically constituted if it is impossible to distinguish between the output of a computer on the one hand and a human poet on the other.

Individual evidence

↑ LoveLetters_1.0 - MUC = Resurrection. A memorial. - David Link. In: alpha60.de. David Link, 2009, accessed June 12, 2019 .
↑ Manuel Bachmann: Triumph of the algorithm. How the idea of software was invented . Swiss Engineering Institute Press, Zurich, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03304658-0 , p. 137 .

personal data
SURNAME	Link, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and media theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf

[1] LoveLetters_1.0 - MUC = Resurrection. A memorial. - David Link. In: alpha60.de. David Link, 2009, accessed June 12, 2019 .

[2] Manuel Bachmann: Triumph of the algorithm. How the idea of software was invented . Swiss Engineering Institute Press, Zurich, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03304658-0 , p. 137 .