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Text graphics and related works, going back thousands of years. ASCII, PETSCII, Unicode, textiles, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Maintained by Goto80. Searchable archive at text-mode.org

Unerasable Characters I-III, by Winnie Soon 2020-2022. The project collects censored posts from Weibo, China’s biggest social media platform, and produces various output with it. The book is generative but unreadable and asks the question: is this book illegal? Unerasable Characters II displays censored posts on a grid for as long as they were online at Weibo. Unerasable Characters III is an interactive web piece that shows unreadable renditions of censored posts made during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Can i interest you in some 2ch ascii cats in these trying times?