Recursive Apologies Book Launch

Doors Open 4:30pm, FREE

Join us for the launch of Recursive Apologies, a new publication on artist Janet Zweig released by Inventory Press, whose early experiments with computers, language, and sculpture feel strikingly relevant today.

First developed in the early 1990s, Zweig’s text-generating sculptures combined rudimentary algorithms, dot-matrix printers, and mechanical systems to produce endlessly shifting poetic outputs—works that anticipated many of the questions we now face around artificial intelligence, authorship, and meaning.

Recursive Apologies brings these prescient works together in a richly illustrated volume, with essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker. Designed by Ben Denzer, the book mirrors its subject through a recursive structure that invites readers into a layered, looping experience of language and thought.

The evening will feature readings by Jena Osman and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve from their essays in the book, followed by a conversation and audience Q&A with Janet Zweig, Osman, and Goodeve.

Come early to spend time with one of the iconic pieces from this body of work:  Zweig’s 1993 Mind Over Matter,  currently on view at Vox as part of the exhibition Mouthful.