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Queneau

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Queneau
Raymond . 1903--76. French writer, influenced in the 1920s by surrealism. His novels include Zazie dans le m?tro (1959)


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Founded in 1960 by the Surrealist-influenced writer Raymond Queneau and mathematician Francois Le Lionnais, the Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (or Workshop for Potential Literature) devised experiments that, paradoxically, seek to liberate expression by imposing limitations.
Cohon has received are the 1996 Joan Hodges Queneau Medal for outstanding engineering achievement in environmental conservation, awarded jointly by the American Association of Engineering Societies and the National Audubon Society, and the 1998 Edgeworth-Pareto Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.
JODI works with computers in the same way that Dan Sandin works with video or Raymond Queneau worked with words--irreverently manipulating a medium at its most fundamental level.
 
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