Another Kind of Language
| Multimedia Interactive Installation Interrogating the Surface-Atkinson Gallery- Millfield-UK 2000- 1Interrogating the Surface-Millbank- London-UK 2002- Differentia-PM Gallery & House-London-UK 2002 |
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| With this piece
I intent to analyse communicative systems produced in the area of in-
between 'Semantic Text, Image Text and Phonetic Text' using digital
technology. It works as a web piece or
as an interactive installation: three computers projecting the images
on to the same screen in order to get a multi-layered image at the same
time as a multi-layered soundscape of phonetic compositions. By rolling
the mouse over, the textual surface appears and disappears, revealing
the text-image and sound. The user can go from one of the pieces to
the others and interact with other users. Each one of the pieces is
formed by the meaningless phonetic sounds of three different
languages: English, Mandarin and Arabic. When choosing the languages,
as well as the sounds, I was interested in the differences of their
visual element, reading patterns (right to left, left to right, top
to bottom) and linear and non-linear qualities. Notions analysed in
Visual Poetry, and recently in Digital Poetry/Art.
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