Publication series of documenta(13), 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts. The booklet contains scans of loveletters produced by my installation “LoveLetters”, which is a resurrection of C. Strachey’s loveletters program from 1952, along with German translations. Published by: Hatje and Cantz.

In his work David Link generates (apparently) interactive projects, at the interface between art, science, and technology. For LoveLetters_1.0, Link reconstructed a functional replica of one of the earliest programmable computers, the Ferranti Mark I, and an equally early program, invented in 1952 by Christopher Strachey at the University of Manchester. To produce computer-generated love letters, written using a built-in random generator. Anonymously addressed to “Darling Love” or “Jewel Duck,” the letters talk to the reader in a surprisingly human and tender way. In his introduction, Geoff Cox highlights the question, already suggested by the apparently contradictory title of this notebook, Machine Heart, of whether the human capacity for thinking and feeling has been captured by machines. David Link (*1971) is an artist and media archaeologist; he lives and works in Cologne. David Link (*1971) is an artist and media archaeologist; he lives and works in Cologne. Geoff Cox is currently a Researcher at the Digital Urban Living Research Center, Aarhus Universitym Denmark. More