20 GOTO 10

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20 GOTO 10 was an art gallery in operation from 2008 to 2012, founded by Christopher Abad in San Francisco, California, United States.[1]

History[edit]

Its name is a reference to the traditional looping 'Hello world' program written by beginner programmers.[2] It featured both traditional and "hacker" art, with an emphasis on technology as art, or exhibits which make the potentially criminal or unethical aspects of computer security accessible to the public.[3][4]

It received more prominent vlog,[5] blog,[6][7][8] and print news coverage[9] when Kevin Olson displayed the first ever American showing of ANSI art in a physical art gallery. Jason Scott Sadofsky, creator of the BBS Documentary expressed interest[10] in the custom LCD scrollers based on a Parallax chipset with a custom ANSI scroller to VGA output written in SPIN made solely for the ANSI gallery show.[11]

The gallery was located at 679 Geary Street in San Francisco, and was defunct at this location as of Summer 2012.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lee, Ellen (2008-01-12). "Early computer-generated art revived for S.F. exhibit". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  2. ^ Tandy Pocket Computer#Prog
  3. ^ McMillan, Robert (IDG News service)San Francisco gallery shows hacker Joe Grand's work as art Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 2 PC World, IT World. 30 Oct 2007.
  4. ^ 20 goto 10 nfo Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, 20 GOTO 10 website
  5. ^ Slutsky, Irena. ANSI Art for the Masses Geek Entertainment TV. 21 Jan 2008.
  6. ^ Johnson, Joel. ANSI Art Show at 20 GOTO 10 Gallery Boing Boing. 28 Jan 2008.
  7. ^ Wortham, Jenna. ANSI Art Show Recalls Glory Days of MS-DOS. Wired blog network. 14 Jan 2008.
  8. ^ Beale, Scott. ANSI Art Gallery Show at 20 Goto 10. Laughing Squid. 7 Jan 2008.
  9. ^ a b Lee, Ellen. Early computer-generated art revived for S.F. exhibit. San Francisco Chronicle. 12 Jan 2008.
  10. ^ Scott, Jason. The ANSI Gallery Archived 2008-03-01 at the Wayback Machine. Textfiles.com. 5 Dec 2007.
  11. ^ Olson, Kevin (acidjazz). lcd scroller board Archived 2008-03-21 at the Wayback Machine. ansi.notchill.com 17 Dec 2007.

37°47′11″N 122°24′51″W / 37.78632°N 122.41430°W / 37.78632; -122.41430