.urler
Made in collaboration with Pierre Bourdareau
The world is already so full of images, what’s the point of adding more ?
.urler serves, for a start, to show how vast an area they cover.
.urler is a conceptual device based on random methods.
.urler converts words into images … or else it puts to test the thaumaturgical power of words.
Basically, the idea is to attempt a poetical “assembling” of software, to work out a fast link between a speech recognition software and a search engine on Internet. The underlying logic is both efficient and deceptive, in as much as a semantic link can be established (rightly or wrongly) between randomly chosen sound indicators and their visual equivalents, producing relationships in the nature of metonymy, misinterpretation…
More details on this work are available here (in French)
.urler – Le temps des appareils – Part 2, Le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux, France – the 23th of May 2006
Exhibited during :
2006 Le temps des appareils, Faux-Mouvement, Metz, France
2006 Le temps des appareils – Part 2, Le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux, France
2006 Art Tech Media, Madrid, Spain
2007 Transmediale.07 / TM20 / Web-based Entries, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany