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The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive online artwork, created for Art21 and PBS by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis, which allows one to create and evolve the possible writing systems of one’s own personalized “nonsense alphabets”—coherent sets of abstract forms which might resemble the plausible writing systems of imaginary civilizations or unfamiliar societies. The abstract alphabets produced by the Machine can be downloaded and are entered into a comprehensive archive of user creations. The products of the Machine probe the liminal territories between familiarity and chaos, language and gesture.
z downloaded z and made this example (z Z):

another z cutting through what’s known and accepted.
z-source: flong