WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.470 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.470 --> 00:00:02.850 align:middle line:90% There are your video calls. 00:00:02.850 --> 00:00:06.240 align:middle line:84% We've seen some yesterday and there's 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:11.880 align:middle line:84% going to be some tomorrow, and it's a very active genre. 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:15.330 align:middle line:84% I think you should all realize that what you're seeing here 00:00:15.330 --> 00:00:20.070 align:middle line:84% is in very large part the cream of a fairly large crowd. 00:00:20.070 --> 00:00:24.420 align:middle line:84% One of my favorites is this group every month. 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:27.932 align:middle line:84% They make these films that are unlike anybody else. 00:00:27.932 --> 00:00:29.640 align:middle line:84% This is one of my favorites, which I just 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.848 align:middle line:84% start and let it go until you guys figure out 00:00:31.848 --> 00:00:32.640 align:middle line:90% what they're doing. 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.320 align:middle line:90% [VIDEO PLAYBACK] 00:00:40.320 --> 00:01:39.547 align:middle line:90% 00:01:39.547 --> 00:01:40.130 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:01:40.130 --> 00:01:41.910 align:middle line:84% I think by now you see what's going on. 00:01:41.910 --> 00:01:47.260 align:middle line:84% It's totally about words that doesn't use any words. 00:01:47.260 --> 00:01:48.960 align:middle line:90% Amazing to me. 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:51.510 align:middle line:84% I think Tree of Life is a much more longer version 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:52.050 align:middle line:90% of the same. 00:01:52.050 --> 00:01:55.230 align:middle line:90% 00:01:55.230 --> 00:01:57.030 align:middle line:84% This is a really terrific project. 00:01:57.030 --> 00:02:00.480 align:middle line:84% There's an effect called persistence of vision 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.720 align:middle line:84% that allows you to take something very small, 00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:05.070 align:middle line:90% like five LEDs. 00:02:05.070 --> 00:02:07.140 align:middle line:84% And if they're in motion and the computer 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:10.860 align:middle line:84% is changing the way they light at exactly the right way, 00:02:10.860 --> 00:02:14.340 align:middle line:84% you get this persistence of vision effect, which 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:16.570 align:middle line:90% is that this much longer thing. 00:02:16.570 --> 00:02:18.330 align:middle line:84% So this guy just does a study on how 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:24.240 align:middle line:84% to use Arduino, which is a really cool platform. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:26.040 align:middle line:84% He built this little vest for the dog 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:33.570 align:middle line:84% and programmed it to play the entire text of a Cory Doctor 00:02:33.570 --> 00:02:35.550 align:middle line:90% novel. 00:02:35.550 --> 00:02:37.500 align:middle line:84% But could be applied to just about any text 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:38.920 align:middle line:90% and wouldn't have to be a dog. 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:40.327 align:middle line:90% I mean, there's all sorts of-- 00:02:40.327 --> 00:02:41.910 align:middle line:84% this effect is I guess what I'm trying 00:02:41.910 --> 00:02:44.370 align:middle line:84% to show you is this notion of persistence of vision 00:02:44.370 --> 00:02:49.440 align:middle line:84% allows for a lot of really even guerilla effects of getting 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:51.360 align:middle line:84% stuff in environments where it shouldn't be. 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.720 align:middle line:84% Because if you had to defend a group of people that were all 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:57.365 align:middle line:84% wearing these LEDs and standing in a row, 00:02:57.365 --> 00:02:58.740 align:middle line:84% the same effect could be achieved 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:00.740 align:middle line:84% with the persistence of vision where it wouldn't 00:03:00.740 --> 00:03:02.010 align:middle line:90% have to all be around at once. 00:03:02.010 --> 00:03:03.870 align:middle line:84% You could just basically cycle across them 00:03:03.870 --> 00:03:09.460 align:middle line:90% and they would act as a screen. 00:03:09.460 --> 00:03:11.400 align:middle line:90% These are called entoforms. 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:18.690 align:middle line:84% These are bugs, creatures that are built by an algorithm 00:03:18.690 --> 00:03:21.360 align:middle line:84% and are printed on 3D printers but they all 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.760 align:middle line:90% take text as their input. 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:30.090 align:middle line:84% So in a very real sense, you can make your own set of entoforms 00:03:30.090 --> 00:03:31.140 align:middle line:90% from your own words. 00:03:31.140 --> 00:03:33.790 align:middle line:90% 00:03:33.790 --> 00:03:36.540 align:middle line:84% This is a visual artist who-- she does-- 00:03:36.540 --> 00:03:37.950 align:middle line:90% she's just painting on canvas. 00:03:37.950 --> 00:03:40.047 align:middle line:84% But all of-- I shouldn't say all. 00:03:40.047 --> 00:03:42.630 align:middle line:84% I don't-- I'm not familiar with her entire body of work to say 00:03:42.630 --> 00:03:43.170 align:middle line:90% everything. 00:03:43.170 --> 00:03:48.070 align:middle line:84% But everything I have seen by her is text painting. 00:03:48.070 --> 00:03:51.730 align:middle line:84% It's not it's not incorporating text, it's really just text 00:03:51.730 --> 00:03:55.510 align:middle line:84% This's a man named Richard Aston who-- 00:03:55.510 --> 00:03:59.500 align:middle line:84% he's working on the scroll as a format. 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:03.100 align:middle line:84% He can print it out horizontally if the space allows for it 00:04:03.100 --> 00:04:04.803 align:middle line:84% or if the space doesn't allow it, 00:04:04.803 --> 00:04:06.970 align:middle line:84% he can print it this way where it's an actual scroll 00:04:06.970 --> 00:04:10.270 align:middle line:84% that people have to interact with and roll down in order 00:04:10.270 --> 00:04:12.070 align:middle line:90% to view. 00:04:12.070 --> 00:04:14.760 align:middle line:90% 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:16.440 align:middle line:90% This piece, I like a lot. 00:04:16.440 --> 00:04:18.839 align:middle line:84% And I put it in here with push it off the page, 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:20.670 align:middle line:84% even though it's maybe technically strictly 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:22.050 align:middle line:90% just visual poetry. 00:04:22.050 --> 00:04:30.460 align:middle line:84% Because I love the fact that this guy used type from Obama's 00:04:30.460 --> 00:04:32.020 align:middle line:90% campaign and branding. 00:04:32.020 --> 00:04:35.320 align:middle line:84% So this was a decision made that he 00:04:35.320 --> 00:04:39.130 align:middle line:84% was-- that the topography was significant. 00:04:39.130 --> 00:04:42.160 align:middle line:84% And to me that lifted it up off the page. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.110 align:middle line:84% He's done other portraits of Steve Jobs 00:04:44.110 --> 00:04:47.840 align:middle line:84% and some other people in a similar way. 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:52.440 align:middle line:84% We have a body, certainly not the page, 00:04:52.440 --> 00:04:55.540 align:middle line:90% which leads us also to tattoos. 00:04:55.540 --> 00:04:58.100 align:middle line:84% Nick-e Melville is a Scottish poet 00:04:58.100 --> 00:05:00.588 align:middle line:84% who had his own poem tattooed under his skin. 00:05:00.588 --> 00:05:01.130 align:middle line:90% There you go. 00:05:01.130 --> 00:05:03.590 align:middle line:84% If it's going to be permanent, make sure you like it. 00:05:03.590 --> 00:05:06.350 align:middle line:84% This is a website that's devoted entirely to people 00:05:06.350 --> 00:05:07.595 align:middle line:90% who have textual tattoos. 00:05:07.595 --> 00:05:10.120 align:middle line:90% 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.400 align:middle line:84% There are people in this room with textual tattoos, 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:14.440 align:middle line:90% I can tell you that right now. 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:17.358 align:middle line:84% This is a QR code which is becoming 00:05:17.358 --> 00:05:18.400 align:middle line:90% more and more ubiquitous. 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:20.380 align:middle line:84% So you must have guessed that by now someone 00:05:20.380 --> 00:05:22.270 align:middle line:90% has made poetry out of it. 00:05:22.270 --> 00:05:24.670 align:middle line:84% If you were to scan this, this is 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:30.430 align:middle line:84% the text of a biblical poem called Translating Upon Air. 00:05:30.430 --> 00:05:33.453 align:middle line:84% The reason Andrew Russ who goes by Endwar 00:05:33.453 --> 00:05:34.870 align:middle line:84% made this piece is because there's 00:05:34.870 --> 00:05:37.990 align:middle line:84% a project called Translating Upon Air 00:05:37.990 --> 00:05:39.670 align:middle line:84% that Nichols started while he was alive, 00:05:39.670 --> 00:05:46.960 align:middle line:84% that was dedicated to as many possible ways of re-visioning 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:49.070 align:middle line:84% the first poem he ever had published, 00:05:49.070 --> 00:05:52.780 align:middle line:90% which was Translating Upon Air. 00:05:52.780 --> 00:05:55.150 align:middle line:84% Now, we have tattoos in QR codes. 00:05:55.150 --> 00:06:00.190 align:middle line:84% This is a QR code that every time you scan it, 00:06:00.190 --> 00:06:02.690 align:middle line:90% it goes to something different. 00:06:02.690 --> 00:06:04.360 align:middle line:84% He's got a website set up so that when 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.460 align:middle line:84% you scan you go to a website that's got something different 00:06:06.460 --> 00:06:07.010 align:middle line:90% there. 00:06:07.010 --> 00:06:09.970 align:middle line:84% So now if it's permanent, it's at least changeable, 00:06:09.970 --> 00:06:13.030 align:middle line:84% which is an amazing concept from a policy standpoint, 00:06:13.030 --> 00:06:15.688 align:middle line:84% from a curatorial standpoint, from a poetic standpoint. 00:06:15.688 --> 00:06:17.980 align:middle line:84% You could have a tattoo that every time someone scanned 00:06:17.980 --> 00:06:20.500 align:middle line:90% you went to a different poem. 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:22.990 align:middle line:84% This is a piece by Christian Bok. 00:06:22.990 --> 00:06:26.110 align:middle line:84% Christian Bok is this amazing innovator 00:06:26.110 --> 00:06:28.270 align:middle line:90% in all things textual. 00:06:28.270 --> 00:06:30.280 align:middle line:90% This is built out of-- 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:32.890 align:middle line:84% well, it's cuboid, like other cuboids we've seen recently. 00:06:32.890 --> 00:06:35.560 align:middle line:84% This is different in that, these are actual Rubik's cubes 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.080 align:middle line:84% that have these paper constructions over them 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:41.350 align:middle line:84% and then they're built into this large piece. 00:06:41.350 --> 00:06:43.120 align:middle line:84% But each one of these individual blocks 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.900 align:middle line:84% could be taken out and turned to represent different text so 00:06:46.900 --> 00:06:51.595 align:middle line:84% that it could be read in all of these different ways. 00:06:51.595 --> 00:06:54.690 align:middle line:84% Christian Bok also has this project 00:06:54.690 --> 00:06:57.180 align:middle line:84% called Xenotext which is right now coming to fruition. 00:06:57.180 --> 00:06:59.380 align:middle line:84% He proposed it quite a few years ago. 00:06:59.380 --> 00:07:04.380 align:middle line:84% And in a nutshell, what he is what he has done 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:10.560 align:middle line:84% is engineered a virus that stores a text 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.310 align:middle line:84% and then can run operations on that text. 00:07:14.310 --> 00:07:20.520 align:middle line:84% It's a virus, it's a biological bomb. 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:23.340 align:middle line:84% That's a guy named Jeff Booth, very prolific visual poet 00:07:23.340 --> 00:07:25.210 align:middle line:90% and writer about visual poetry. 00:07:25.210 --> 00:07:28.260 align:middle line:84% He makes-- he makes a lot of different things. 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:29.940 align:middle line:84% But these in particular, I thought 00:07:29.940 --> 00:07:31.560 align:middle line:84% you'd like to see the snow lifts. 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:33.630 align:middle line:84% He builds these constructions in the snow, 00:07:33.630 --> 00:07:34.870 align:middle line:90% typically just leaves them. 00:07:34.870 --> 00:07:36.570 align:middle line:84% But in this particular case, it was 00:07:36.570 --> 00:07:42.240 align:middle line:84% snowing so he stayed around and documented its sort of demise. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.610 align:middle line:84% They also make sand lifts also in the sand, 00:07:44.610 --> 00:07:46.490 align:middle line:90% and that's the way [INAUDIBLE].