ANGUS CARLYLE
  • Home
  • Projects
    • Some Memories of Bamboo
    • Sound Escapes
    • 51 | 32 ' 6.954" N / 0 | 00 ' 47.0808" W
    • Viso Come Territorio
    • Air Pressure
    • A Crossing Bell
    • A Downland Index
    • In The Shadow Of The Silent Mountain
    • Decoys
    • HPNOSS
    • Zawawa
    • Night Blooms
    • Other Projects
  • Writing
    • Books
    • Articles
  • News
  • FILM
    • Zawawa
    • The Cave Mouth and The Giant Voice
    • Kiatsu
    • Into The Outside
    • Il Vertice
  • About
  • New Page

"Atom Placed The Site (Data is Complete)"

12/10/2019

 
"Atom Place The Site" is a constrained text for "Atomic", the third edition of Im-Pressed, designed and edited by Tim Hutchinson Design and Alex Cooper. The text takes 63 words from Aristotle's expression of an 'atomist' position he attributes to Leucippus and Democritus and subjects it to a series of manipulations. The following explanation comes from the text's preamble:
"my first constraint involved reconstructing an orthodox timeline of atomic science, then expanding it beyond Leucippus and Democritus and the more modern usual suspects to include contributions from sub-Saharan African, from Maghrebi and Vedic thought. Each node on the timeline was associated with the most proximate written language (Marathi for Sanskrit, for example) and Aristotle’s rebuff was then translated into that language through an automatic translation engine and then back again to impromptu English. This process proceeded in twelve steps from the most recent script to the most ancient, the meaning of subsequent transpositions of the original mutating ever unpredictably. With each iteration, a second constraint came into operation, this time determining the erasure of a single word from the resulting text, emulating Democritus’ parable of the stone cut once, then cut again, smaller and smaller and smaller, as much as it does the radioactive decay of the half-life (albeit without a strictly exponential quasi trajectory). A third (soft) constraint governed the grammaticality of the transformed texts; a fourth and a fifth constraint (and potentially a sixth) remain undisclosed, once more'."

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    June 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2018
    June 2018
    December 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Exhibition
    Film
    Publication
    Residency
    Sound
    Symposium
    Talk
    Writing

  • Home
  • Projects
    • Some Memories of Bamboo
    • Sound Escapes
    • 51 | 32 ' 6.954" N / 0 | 00 ' 47.0808" W
    • Viso Come Territorio
    • Air Pressure
    • A Crossing Bell
    • A Downland Index
    • In The Shadow Of The Silent Mountain
    • Decoys
    • HPNOSS
    • Zawawa
    • Night Blooms
    • Other Projects
  • Writing
    • Books
    • Articles
  • News
  • FILM
    • Zawawa
    • The Cave Mouth and The Giant Voice
    • Kiatsu
    • Into The Outside
    • Il Vertice
  • About
  • New Page