Gravity is a collaborative application using buildings'architecture as a projection surface for sms messages. [Michaël Zancan + Julien Gachadoat / contact [at] 2roqs.com]
A binary meditation on the work of a pioneering Canadian poet contemplating digital poetics from the early sixties to the present. All texts are from the work of Lionel Kearns except where noted. [Lionel Kearns]
ISU is able to draw letters and words and from there generate pictorial compositions. Like in lettrism, which campaign for the use of the letter as the basis of a new art form, ISU generates by itself a series of letters and words that may or may not trigger on the viewer meaning. The process by which ISU decides the use of a letter or builds a word lays on a complex dynamics between a positive feedback mechanism and a random mode. [Leonel Moura / studio [at] leonelmoura.com]
Subverting the idea of the Player Piano, graphic designer and musician Andrew Spackman presents the Fontonola. The Fontonola is a machine that simultaneously projects a simple typographic phrase whilst triggering looped samples, which can be re-ordered, manipulated and remixed into an accompanying live soundscape. The machine aims to expand and explore the relationship between graphic design, music and performance. [Andrew Spackmann / andrewspackman [at] hotmail.com]
Some pictures and videos from the Text Installation. Cold transparent laminating film and light projection [Tsang Kin-Wah / kinwah02 [at] yahoo.com.hk]
Bit.Fall is a waterfall installation, which can write letters and words. There is strictly speaking two cycles, one is the water-cycle, and the other one is the information-cycle. That means there is a tank, a pump and a valve construction. Julius website: www.sphericalrobots.com/ [Julius Popp / info [at] sphericalrobots.com]
Legible Nature: Fate is an Afterthought, models the flight patterns and physical movements of Atlantic Grey Gulls. The natural laws of these flight patterns are altered so that the birds periodically converge to form letters. These letters slowly spell out poems from the Manyoshu, a diverse collection of eighth century Japanese poems which employ the fleeting beauty of Nature as a common metaphor. [Adam Chapman / adam [at] adamchapmanart.com]
SLANG Analisys is a software installation which anaylses the audible qualities of slang words to create a psuedo-phonetic set of visuals. The top 10 slang words were referenced from The Global Language Monitor. [Ekene / ekene [at] hypehypehype.net]