Daniel Temkin

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Esolangs are Systems Art SITE: https://danieltemkin.com BLOG: https://esoteric.codes BOOK: Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)

Blobby thing in yellow sky
Dither in White, Orange and Teal (triangular pixels)
Seat at UN conference hall, labeled Edit-a-thon
Doctrine of type conversion in Christianity and JavaScript
Electrical box on bridge, scrawled with “Your now entering the Home of the Big Booty Justice”
Emilio Estevez labeling Zander Schloss’s glasses
Selfie with Welcome to Supply Chain Awards and Dinner Gala 2026 sign
Rivulet’s design philosophy is inspired by the compactness of mazes, Anni Albers’s Meanders series, and space-filling algorithms. The glyphs above and below accomplish the same thing. One strand is a null value. One strand adds the number one. The other copies the value from element 0 to element 2 of a list. These are parts of a Fibonacci program.
Rivulet is a programming language of flowing strands: each line has a hook to mark its beginning. Strands appear in tightly-packed blocks of code called glyphs, which begin and end with short vertical markers. How a strand meanders through the space of the glyph determines its meaning.
Joshua Citerella wall label about podcast Doomscroll on empty wall
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Me and three dithery blue/gold paintings
Col Sanders saying: as Damian Spinelli it's not his fault he doesn't know mal Bogle
Emergency cat ears, sign with Notice: cat ears must be worn
Tickets for already-scheduled events, including a talk by Daniel Temkin entitled Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code, are accessible to buy on the CCA's website - with the CCA’s ticketing site still fully functional and accepting payments.
Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Code, lots of text bubbles with esolang names and a big No Signal
Source Code Exhibition posters
Squiggly code in the Rivulet language
WordHack Thursday Jan 15, 7 - 10pm. Wonderville, 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn. $15
yayimhere design (abstracted sorting algorithm diagram)
A series of red, green and blue photos with description of how they work as source code
Animated dragon ascii art
Top genres: Shoegaze, Egg Punk, Cool Jazz, Alternative, Garage Rock
JAMC Darklands album cover
Me with hexagonal dither projection
Four test prints with slightly different palettes, of line-based code
A Cree Syllabics keyboard, circular with related songs grouped
My laptop with some signs of our language, Jon in a VIC 20 t-shirt
Gray Area awning with my name on the marquee!
Finger in a finger box by Ayo
Pdp-11
Minitel on chair in front of a pdp-11
Beware, I may be coming to a town near you!
In his acerbic style, he did a vicious takedown of FORTRAN as an "infantile disorder," that BASIC causes programmers to be "mentally mutilated," and that COBOL "cripples the mind" and is a "disease.”
Image: Straightened Tree, Vancouver. Text: Opening reception Wed Sept 24th, 5-8pm Higher Pictures, 45 Main Street #723 Brooklyn
Kangaroo Jack, at 9% / 29%, starting Jerry O’Connell and Anthony Anderson, 2003
Salad Mouthbags: with fried swabian ravioli with met an spinach & homemade dressing
From Hacker News: I can brainfuck and APL with the best of them, and this is the most alien language specification I’ve ever read
Squiggly lines in source code format colors
A maze-like series of squiggles in a "solar" palette, as if code
Atkinson Triptych in Yellow and Lavender, three panels
Book cover with cloud photo slices and ternary codes on the transitions
Room wallpapered in Morellet’s random red and blue squares
Excerpt from tutorial.md
Me reading Building a Debugger
public classed Programmed { public static voided Mained(strung[] args) { System.Consoled.WroteLined("Helloed, World!"); } }
Page from the Klingon Haggadah
Empty Pixelfed feed with “ghosts have taken over this timeline!” message
Morellet’s random red and blue squares (here based on pi digits) on all walls of a hall
Two programs that end up with different results due to a single goto statement read in two different ways
Assigning the value of 4 / 2 to get 1, and then coercing the 2 to a ratio in order to receive the value 1/2.
A list of the many, many interpretations of a long line of code
Video of entering a line of code with two readings, one assigning the value of a var and the other as an integer -- and then altering it to mean only in terms of one or the other