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Item #D4. Mathematical basis of the encryption used to make the pre-encrypted copy of Gibson’s poem on Agrippa’s disk. (This is the work referred to by the programmer in the last paragraph of his letter of 28 March 1992). Facsimile Images Bibliographical Information See also the programmer’s letter on the encryption code. |
Item #D44. Introduction by “Templar” to the First Online Copy of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” poem
This introduction, which claims that the code of the Agrippa diskette was “hacked & cracked,” announced the first version of Gibson’s poem posted online (to the MindVox BBS) on Dec. 10, 1992. The transcript here is from a now defunct Web page version of the MindVox posting available until early 2005 at http://riverbbs.net/pub4/ebook/Agripp.Txt (currently available only in the Google cache here) For the way the poem leaked online and different views about whether it was ever actually hacked, see Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s discussion and follow-up discussion. See also the bootleg video recorded at the Dec. 9, 1992, “transmission” event at the Americas Society in New York City, as well as the 1993 experimental video Re:Agrippa based on the bootleg footage. (One theory was that transcribing from this footage may be the low-tech way the poem was hacked. Subsequent evidence, including the discovery of the original bootleg video recorded Dec. 9, 1992, at the Americas Society and correspondence with Templar’s partner video maker, “Rosehammer,” confirms this theory.)
Item #D11. Press release from the publisher regarding the December 9, 1992, “transmission” of Agrippa.
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This press release was attached to a faxed letter of Dec. 1, 1992, from Kevin Begos to David Leslie of The Kitchen in NYC. (Excerpt from letter)
Item #D47. Original hand-drawn technical plan and specs for the December 9, 1992, “transmission” of Agrippa.
This drawing by Marc Scarpa was the basis for his later, typed technical specs for “the Transmission” (see Item #D12)
Item #D12. Outline and flowchart for the December 9, 1992, “transmission” of Agrippa.
These plans and specs were typed by Marc Scarpa based on his original hand-drawn plans (see Item #D47)
Item #D18. The Kitchen’s press release for the transmission of Agrippa.
Item #D13. The Kitchen’s advertisement [in Village Voice] for the December 9, 1992, “transmission” of Agrippa.
Item #D28. New Yorker “Goings on About Town” notice of the December 9, 1992, “transmission” of Agrippa (New Yorker, 14 Dec. 1992).
Item #D42. Letter of agreement for never-created CD-ROM version of Agrippa (a book of the dead).
The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site created by a team of researchers participating in the Transcriptions Project on literature and information culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department. Photos of the book and scans or transcriptions of unique archival materials are used by permission of the book’s publisher, Kevin Begos. The Agrippa Files was created between July and December 2005, and launched on Dec. 9, 2005, to coincide with the anniversary of the 1992 Agrippa “transmission” event.
