Daniel Temkin
@dtemkin.bsky.social
Artist + esolanger, he/him
New book: Forty-Four Esolangs—the first artist’s monograph of programming languages—out now: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/
New book: Forty-Four Esolangs—the first artist’s monograph of programming languages—out now: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/
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New Yorkers: I'm back soon to talk Forty-Four Esolangs at LES indie bookstore P&T Knitwear.
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
Forty-Four Esolangs by Daniel Temkin | P&T Knitwear
A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
ptknitwear.com
Trying something new with this: an installation of works from the book. It meant coming back from book travel, straight into fifteen-hour days of printing.
Popped in for the last day of my Dither Studies up at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Popped in for the last day of my Dither Studies up at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
a career digression from a meander from a path
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
a career digression from a meander from a path
Trying something new with this: an installation of works from the book. It meant coming back from book travel, straight into fifteen-hour days of printing.
New Yorkers: I'm back soon to talk Forty-Four Esolangs at LES indie bookstore P&T Knitwear.
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
Forty-Four Esolangs by Daniel Temkin | P&T Knitwear
A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
ptknitwear.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trying something new with this: an installation of works from the book. It meant coming back from book travel, straight into fifteen-hour days of printing.
Spent four hours debugging an Epson printer driver issue but my deadline and lack of alternatives got me through
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spent four hours debugging an Epson printer driver issue but my deadline and lack of alternatives got me through
My site is down and not even mad 🤷
Cloudflare is down. I love that sometimes the Internet just stops working. Like a digital snow day.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My site is down and not even mad 🤷
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November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Spent three days intensely working on an esoconlang (programming language with its own script and pronunciation) with Jon Corbett (of Cree# fame)
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Spent three days intensely working on an esoconlang (programming language with its own script and pronunciation) with Jon Corbett (of Cree# fame)
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
New Yorkers: I'm back soon to talk Forty-Four Esolangs at LES indie bookstore P&T Knitwear.
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
Forty-Four Esolangs by Daniel Temkin | P&T Knitwear
A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.
ptknitwear.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
New Yorkers: I'm back soon to talk Forty-Four Esolangs at LES indie bookstore P&T Knitwear.
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
It will include installations for two of the languages!
Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...
The Orientation Game
Joel Gustafson
joelgustafson.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...
Hey Seattle! Tuesday night I’ll be talking esolangs, code aesthetics, and expressiveness in the text of code
Hey Seattle folks! I'll be talking esolangs at Ada's Technical Books on 11/11. Would love to see you there. RSVPs are now open: luma.com/n30butuj
AUTHOR TALK: The Art of Esoteric Code with Daniel Temkin · Luma
The new book Forty-Four Esolangs collects programming languages by a single artist who poses code as prayer to the Greek gods, patterns of empty folders, or…
luma.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hey Seattle! Tuesday night I’ll be talking esolangs, code aesthetics, and expressiveness in the text of code
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
not sure yet if I'm going to be able to attend this myself, but tomorrow afternoon The Digital Media Workshop is presenting a discussion with @dtemkin.bsky.social about his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes. Definitely worth checking out if you can make it...
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
not sure yet if I'm going to be able to attend this myself, but tomorrow afternoon The Digital Media Workshop is presenting a discussion with @dtemkin.bsky.social about his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes. Definitely worth checking out if you can make it...
I did assignment #4 when I was in @naylandblake.bsky.social’s class. I picked Cat Fancy, and its pieces on cat care and ancient cat worship — however ahistorical — make for a more utopian vision of society hyperallergic.com/1040396/100-...
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
hyperallergic.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I did assignment #4 when I was in @naylandblake.bsky.social’s class. I picked Cat Fancy, and its pieces on cat care and ancient cat worship — however ahistorical — make for a more utopian vision of society hyperallergic.com/1040396/100-...
Claude's first move is always a React app, but it sucks at React
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Claude's first move is always a React app, but it sucks at React
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
if y'all haven't read something about art worth pausing and making a quick voicemail to record and share it, that's sad but [gestures around at all this] understandable. if y'all are just too lazy to click thru for the number, fine. it's 34-SOUVENIR.
I'm compiling another volume of Phone It In, an art writing mixtape. So if you find a nice, great, or compelling bit of art-related text, call the greg.org voicemail and share it [no bots, slop, hate, or twitter] greg.org/archive/2025...
greg.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
if y'all haven't read something about art worth pausing and making a quick voicemail to record and share it, that's sad but [gestures around at all this] understandable. if y'all are just too lazy to click thru for the number, fine. it's 34-SOUVENIR.
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5)
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5)
Windows-1252 is so embarrassing. What is wrong with you, Excel?
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Windows-1252 is so embarrassing. What is wrong with you, Excel?
Hey Seattle folks! I'll be talking esolangs at Ada's Technical Books on 11/11. Would love to see you there. RSVPs are now open: luma.com/n30butuj
AUTHOR TALK: The Art of Esoteric Code with Daniel Temkin · Luma
The new book Forty-Four Esolangs collects programming languages by a single artist who poses code as prayer to the Greek gods, patterns of empty folders, or…
luma.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hey Seattle folks! I'll be talking esolangs at Ada's Technical Books on 11/11. Would love to see you there. RSVPs are now open: luma.com/n30butuj
This was fun to see; also, the Bay Area folks brought great energy. Ended the first leg of my book tour on a high note!
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This was fun to see; also, the Bay Area folks brought great energy. Ended the first leg of my book tour on a high note!
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
this "Java's Crypt" thing sounds scary
April 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
this "Java's Crypt" thing sounds scary
Begging anyone I can think of to get a photo of Mamdani with my wok when he’s at the museum on Fri
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Begging anyone I can think of to get a photo of Mamdani with my wok when he’s at the museum on Fri
Once in a while they let you experience experiential art
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Once in a while they let you experience experiential art
Hey SF folks! I‘ll have a reading (more of a free association of esolang thoughts) Friday Night at Gray Area grayarea.org/event/book-l...
Book Launch & Signing — Daniel Temkin: Forty-Four Esolangs
Gray Area celebrates Artist and Author Daniel Temkin and his new monograph, "Forty-Four Esolangs."
grayarea.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Hey SF folks! I‘ll have a reading (more of a free association of esolang thoughts) Friday Night at Gray Area grayarea.org/event/book-l...
Reposted by Daniel Temkin
London friends! @katiehofstadter.bsky.social & I (aka Superradiance Lab :) are very happy to be showing (excerpts from) SUPERRADIANCE at Outernet with Gazelli Art House during frieze weekend. Every hour on the hour till 11pm. Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day I believe!
October 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
London friends! @katiehofstadter.bsky.social & I (aka Superradiance Lab :) are very happy to be showing (excerpts from) SUPERRADIANCE at Outernet with Gazelli Art House during frieze weekend. Every hour on the hour till 11pm. Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day I believe!