Archival Documents

Also includes electronic, digital, and other media artifacts used in the creation, publication, circulation, or documentation of Agrippa

Item #D1 Agrippa Press Release/Prospectus (1992)
Item #D2 Printer’s Copy of Genetic Code for Agrippa Body Text (1992)
Item #D3 Instructions for the Diskette in Agrippa (1992)
Item #D4 Mathematical Foundation for Agrippa’s Encryption Code (1938)
Item #D5 Code for Scrolling Gibson’s Poem in Agrippa (9 August 1992)
Item #D6 Letter from the Programmer (28 March 1992)
Item #D7 Notes on Agrippa’s Code (25 March 1992)
Item #D8 Conversations from the Echo Network (April 1992)
Item #D9 Letter from Kevin Begos to William Gibson (1992)
Item #D10 Machine Code (7 July 1992)
Item #D11 Press Release for “The Transmission” (1 December 1992)
Item #D12 Technical Specs for “the Transmission” (15 September 1992)
Item #D13 The Kitchen’s Advertisement for “The Transmission” (1992)
Item #D14 Letter from Kevin Begos to Chris Farley at USA Today (8 April 1992)
Item #D15 Letter from Kevin Begos to Alan Liu (26 October 2002)
Item #D16 Re:Agrippa (Experimental Video of Dec. 9, 1992, ‘Transmission’ of Agrippa) (1993)
Item #D17 Center for Book Arts Invitation (1993)
Item #D18 The Kitchen’s Press Release for “The Transmission” (16 October 1992)
Item #D19 Florida State Univ. Exhibition Press Release (1994)
Item #D20 Florida State Univ. Exhibition Loan Agreement (9 February 1992)
Item #D22 Victoria & Albert Museum Book and Beyond Exhibition Catalog (1995)
Item #D22 Center for Book Arts Newsletter Article (April 1993)
Item #D23 Invitation to Attend Exhibition at Stella’s (1992)
Item #D24 Cryptography Conference Attended by Kevin Begos (1 June 1992)
Item #D25 Further Conversations from the Echo Network (November-December 1992)
Item #D26 Kodak Catalog Advertising “The Agrippa Album” (1920)
Item #D27 Letter from Kevin Begos to William Gibson (c. Oct. 1992)
Item #D28 New Yorker Notice of “The Transmission” (14 December 1992)
Item #D29 Last Letter from the Programmer (9 August 1992)
Item #D30 Publisher’s Press Release for Agrippa (23 March 1992)
Item #D31 Letter from the Programmer (28 April 1992)
Item #D32 Letter from the Programmer (7 May 1992)
Item #D33 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: Any One Acquainted with the Mechanisms of Projecting Lanterns Will See Its Advantages
Item #D34 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: Pay Your Bills By Check
Item #D35 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: Rapidly Detects and Quantifies Single and Double-Stranded DNA
Item #D36 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: Recognized as the Height of Quality
Item #D37 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: For Instantaneous Photography at Night
Item #D38 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: We Now Introduce Such an Article
Item #D39 Source image for overprints on Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings: Tell Daddy We Miss Him
Item #D40 Letter from Kevin Begos to William Gibson (1992)
Item #D41 Letter from Kevin Begos to Nick Despotopoulis at Apple Computer (24 July 1992)
Item #D42 Contract for Never-Created CD-ROM of Agrippa (undated)
Item #D43 Center for Book Arts Exhibition Catalog (1993)
Item #D44 ‘Templar’s’ Introduction to the First Online Copy of Gibson’s ‘Agrippa’ Poem (December 10, 1992)
Item #D45 Letter from John Perry Barlow to Kevin Begos (11 June 1992)
Item #D46 Flyer for UC Santa Barbara Exhibition and Panel on Agrippa (1 Dec. 2005)
Item #D47 Original Hand-Drawn Technical Plan for “the Transmission” (1992)
Item #D48 Bootleg video of Live Run of the Diskette Containing William Gibson’s “Agrippa” at the Americas Society, New York City (9 Dec. 1992)
Item #D49 Video cartridge containing ¾”-tape copy of the bootleg video of “Transmission” event at the Americas Society, New York Society. (Basis on Item #D48 on this site) (Original video recorded 9 Dec. 1992; date of this video cartridge and its copy of the original tape unknown)
Item #D50 Disk image (bit-level copy) of Agrippa diskette created from collector Allan Chasanoff’s original 1992 diskette (downloadable disk-image file: fd0_agrippa.dmg) (Oct. 2008)
Item #D51 Video capture of a “run” of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” poem made from playing a disk-image (bit-level) copy of original 1992 Agrippa diskette (Oct. 2008)
Item #D52 Original 1992 Agrippa 3½”, 1.4 Mb diskette belonging to collector Allan Chasanoff; used to make the disk-image copy and emulated run of the William Gibson poem featured on this site (Items #D50, #D51) (23 Sept. to 7 Oct. 1992)
Item #D53 3½”, 800 Kb diskette, spray-painted black, also belonging to collector Allan Chasanoff with unrecoverable or blank data; relation to the functional 1992 Agrippa 3½”, 1.4 Mb diskette (Item #D52) belonging to Chasanoff unknown. (It was possibly a prop used in the creation or publicity for Agrippa (possibly 1992)
Item #D54 Original Text of Gibson’s “Agrippa” Poem Extracted From Disk