Loop

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Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
installation art / interactive art / network art
Keywords:
installation / interactive / linguistics / loop / net.art / sound-image interaction
Creation Date:
2000
Description:
The installation derives from a website of the same name, which offers a discussion platform on the "loop" phenomenon. Integrated into a chatroom and linked to a dialogue system, the chat keeps constantly directed at the issue of "loop", criticising it at the same time. The dialogues are split into words and fragments of sentences, which are then graphically newly combined following the principle of coincidence. The conventional linear syntax is disturbed. Generating syntactic layerings and blindspots, the digital "speech images" are also acoustically disturbed by a speech syntheziser attempting to put the same words together into a new rhythmic order. (...) (P.F.)

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Original Title (English):
Loop