Recombinant Poetics and the Database Aesthetic
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چکیده
ion Machine / Erotic – The Voyeur of Light (1994) was a temporary site specific installation in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia. A text was generated by randomly drawing from a pre-authored database of textual fragments. The security eyepiece was inverted to let people view into the room from the hallway. Expecting to be a voyeur, the participant unpredictably saw a text presented via computer, suspended just inside the door (obscuring the room entirely). The work was non-interactive in terms of operating on the database. The work functioned in an auto-generative manner. Often machine driven chance procedures are employed as one strategy in my works to derive new juxtapositions. The content of the interaction of “peeping” intermingling with the unexpected stochastic erotic text, gave this work a unique set of charged “readings”. To return back to our genetic metaphor, Kahn, in Wireless Imagination, points toward the genetic metaphor in Burroughs work, in relation to the generation of context:
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