[net]textualities
 works by Yvonne

Some texts and art works that highlight the obfuscation of transmission in a multi-cultural and new media world.

Gareth Long’s Don Quixote

A book generated by processing the Audiobook version of Don Quixote through speech recognition software. After training the speech recognition software to recognize the voice of George Guidall - the narrator of the audiobook, the recording was played to the computer. The resultant text was reformatted to once again be a book.

http://garethlong.net/donQuixote/donQuixote.html

See also his Platoon / Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada http://garethlong.net/platoon/platoon.html

An intervention into the English subtitles of Oliver Stone’s Platoon. The regular subtitles slowly are replaced with text from Mark Satin’s 1968 underground besteller Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada.

Erika Tan’s Pidgin

Read about her cross-cultural, anthropological, new media installation:
Translation, Transcodification, Transmission: Erika Tan’s Pidgin: Interrupted Transmission

Andy Deck’s decoderBling

A free interpretation of privatized data streams. Digital encryption and encoding mired in secrecy and exclusivity. A premonition of future histories lost in translation. Decode the present and future illegibility of state-of-the-art media.

http://artcontext.org/decoderBling/

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Just came across the following:

Loops / Open source
This project addresses cultural memory as endangered by the computer age

Isn’t it the opposite? That the computer age actually saves /  preserves / enables cultural memory? That we’ve never seen such a cultural reservoir as now? Maybe it is - as openendedgroup continue, - an age that perhaps offers a solution.

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