WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.050 --> 00:00:07.280 align:middle line:84% This is another one of my pieces, much later. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.870 align:middle line:90% Whoops, sorry. 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:17.860 align:middle line:84% This is a 5 by 5 by 5 cube, which I will put some lines on, 00:00:17.860 --> 00:00:20.530 align:middle line:90% so you can see what I mean. 00:00:20.530 --> 00:00:23.620 align:middle line:84% This cube is fully rotatable in 3D space. 00:00:23.620 --> 00:00:24.340 align:middle line:90% You can grab it. 00:00:24.340 --> 00:00:25.007 align:middle line:90% You can move it. 00:00:25.007 --> 00:00:27.250 align:middle line:90% You can do whatever you want. 00:00:27.250 --> 00:00:29.860 align:middle line:90% You can zoom. 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:30.730 align:middle line:90% You can unzoom. 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:32.118 align:middle line:90% You can get however you like it. 00:00:32.118 --> 00:00:32.910 align:middle line:90% Take the lines off. 00:00:32.910 --> 00:00:34.390 align:middle line:90% And I find them annoying. 00:00:34.390 --> 00:00:35.420 align:middle line:90% You can reset it. 00:00:35.420 --> 00:00:39.040 align:middle line:84% And if you wanted to step through in small increments, 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:39.730 align:middle line:90% you could. 00:00:39.730 --> 00:00:42.460 align:middle line:84% Otherwise, you can just let the automation take over 00:00:42.460 --> 00:00:45.010 align:middle line:90% and just watch what it does. 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:48.130 align:middle line:84% The mechanism at play here is these-- 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:50.600 align:middle line:84% words will always remain facing front. 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.380 align:middle line:84% No matter how you move the cube, the words always face front, 00:00:53.380 --> 00:00:54.775 align:middle line:90% so it always remains readable. 00:00:54.775 --> 00:00:58.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.030 --> 00:01:00.880 align:middle line:84% What's happening and what makes them readable is that 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.670 align:middle line:84% essentially, the grammatical structures in these five poems 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:06.310 align:middle line:84% are all palindromes at the word level, 00:01:06.310 --> 00:01:09.140 align:middle line:84% as opposed to palindromes at the letter level. 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:13.510 align:middle line:84% So there are phrases that can reverse themselves. 00:01:13.510 --> 00:01:16.630 align:middle line:84% But then they're are also meshed together, also, 00:01:16.630 --> 00:01:20.112 align:middle line:84% so that any line that goes across is also a line that goes 00:01:20.112 --> 00:01:22.570 align:middle line:84% back, which is different, which adds a layer of complexity. 00:01:22.570 --> 00:01:26.500 align:middle line:84% But essentially, they're-- what it boils down to is they're-- 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:30.970 align:middle line:84% it's a weaving of threads comprised of palindromes 00:01:30.970 --> 00:01:32.710 align:middle line:90% at the word level. 00:01:32.710 --> 00:01:35.200 align:middle line:84% And there's various levels of complexity 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:39.010 align:middle line:84% in the different pieces that can populate that cube. 00:01:39.010 --> 00:01:43.820 align:middle line:90% 00:01:43.820 --> 00:01:47.430 align:middle line:84% And this is a guy named Jim Andrews. 00:01:47.430 --> 00:01:48.740 align:middle line:90% Jim Andrews is amazing. 00:01:48.740 --> 00:01:51.030 align:middle line:84% Also a guy who's sort of serially off the page. 00:01:51.030 --> 00:01:54.600 align:middle line:84% I don't think he's ever done anything on a page. 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:59.750 align:middle line:84% In fact, he talks about his website as his book. 00:01:59.750 --> 00:02:02.282 align:middle line:90% He calls vispo.com-- 00:02:02.282 --> 00:02:02.990 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:02.990 --> 00:02:03.560 align:middle line:90% --his book. 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:09.514 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:09.514 --> 00:02:11.570 align:middle line:84% This is one of the earliest things that he did. 00:02:11.570 --> 00:02:12.680 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.866 align:middle line:84% It's sort of a deconstruction of-- 00:02:14.866 --> 00:02:15.640 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:16.580 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:17.250 align:middle line:90% --a mix of-- 00:02:17.250 --> 00:02:18.730 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:18.730 --> 00:02:20.555 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:20.555 --> 00:02:21.445 align:middle line:90% 00:02:21.445 --> 00:02:23.230 align:middle line:90% [GUTTURAL SOUNDS] 00:02:23.230 --> 00:02:27.580 align:middle line:84% Really deconstructing poetry in a really insane, cool way. 00:02:27.580 --> 00:02:31.990 align:middle line:84% But he's also done an enormous amount of other work 00:02:31.990 --> 00:02:33.400 align:middle line:90% that I find legendary. 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:34.433 align:middle line:90% This is called "Nio." 00:02:34.433 --> 00:02:37.407 align:middle line:90% 00:02:37.407 --> 00:02:39.490 align:middle line:84% I want to address this sound, because last time it 00:02:39.490 --> 00:02:40.300 align:middle line:90% was really loud. 00:02:40.300 --> 00:02:42.484 align:middle line:90% So just give me a sec here. 00:02:42.484 --> 00:02:43.458 align:middle line:90% Skip the intro. 00:02:43.458 --> 00:02:48.622 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.622 --> 00:02:49.789 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC - JIM ANDREWS, "NIO"] 00:02:49.789 --> 00:02:51.385 align:middle line:90% [VOCALIZING] 00:02:51.385 --> 00:03:03.700 align:middle line:90% 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:09.090 align:middle line:90% So what you have here is-- 00:03:09.090 --> 00:03:10.135 align:middle line:90% each one of these-- 00:03:10.135 --> 00:03:12.382 align:middle line:90% [VOCALIZING] 00:03:12.382 --> 00:03:14.510 align:middle line:84% --is a little different sounding than the next. 00:03:14.510 --> 00:03:24.020 align:middle line:90% 00:03:24.020 --> 00:03:25.468 align:middle line:90% Take them off. 00:03:25.468 --> 00:03:28.050 align:middle line:84% Just want to isolate any given sound. 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:38.373 align:middle line:90% 00:03:38.373 --> 00:03:39.790 align:middle line:84% He also has a version of this that 00:03:39.790 --> 00:03:42.082 align:middle line:84% allows you to take these things and chain them together 00:03:42.082 --> 00:03:43.990 align:middle line:84% in any way you want, and more elaborately. 00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:46.000 align:middle line:84% This is sort of like a display or a demo model. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.250 align:middle line:84% There's a version of this that allows you to literally 00:03:48.250 --> 00:03:49.810 align:middle line:84% actively put these pieces together 00:03:49.810 --> 00:03:55.420 align:middle line:84% in any order that you want and control how they play 00:03:55.420 --> 00:03:58.420 align:middle line:90% and how they loop. 00:03:58.420 --> 00:04:00.355 align:middle line:90% This is a project-- 00:04:00.355 --> 00:04:03.580 align:middle line:84% John M Bennett has this poem, "I Lamp Sand Cluster." 00:04:03.580 --> 00:04:08.650 align:middle line:84% And he has stated that his goal was 00:04:08.650 --> 00:04:10.780 align:middle line:84% to see it published as many places 00:04:10.780 --> 00:04:12.860 align:middle line:84% as possible, as many times as possible. 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:17.140 align:middle line:84% And this guy, Ross Priddle, who is Canadian publisher, 00:04:17.140 --> 00:04:19.810 align:middle line:84% all-round great guy, mail artist, 00:04:19.810 --> 00:04:22.270 align:middle line:84% started a project called The 5 Million Copies Project. 00:04:22.270 --> 00:04:24.313 align:middle line:84% And he said-- he built a website, 00:04:24.313 --> 00:04:26.230 align:middle line:84% and he invited mail artists all over the world 00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:29.818 align:middle line:84% to send him mail art that had "I lamp sand cluster" on it. 00:04:29.818 --> 00:04:31.360 align:middle line:84% And he was going to document all this 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.260 align:middle line:90% until he got to "5 Million." 00:04:33.260 --> 00:04:37.660 align:middle line:84% So I worked with a friend of mine to-- 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:40.007 align:middle line:84% we basically sent Ross Priddle a hard drive 00:04:40.007 --> 00:04:41.590 align:middle line:84% that when you plug it into a computer, 00:04:41.590 --> 00:04:44.680 align:middle line:84% it began cycling through five million different permutations 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.950 align:middle line:84% of this poem by changing the font and the color 00:04:47.950 --> 00:04:49.450 align:middle line:90% and the layout on the page. 00:04:49.450 --> 00:04:51.850 align:middle line:84% So I told Ross, five million copies. 00:04:51.850 --> 00:04:52.462 align:middle line:90% Project over. 00:04:52.462 --> 00:04:53.420 align:middle line:90% Take your website down. 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:55.210 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:55.210 --> 00:04:56.390 align:middle line:90% But he didn't. 00:04:56.390 --> 00:04:58.750 align:middle line:84% But the poems definitely don't exist on the page. 00:04:58.750 --> 00:05:01.900 align:middle line:84% They exist-- as I said, only on a hard drive owned 00:05:01.900 --> 00:05:04.210 align:middle line:90% by Ross Priddle. 00:05:04.210 --> 00:05:10.300 align:middle line:84% This is a poem written by Canadian poet bpNichol. 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:12.340 align:middle line:90% "A Lake, A Line, A Lone." 00:05:12.340 --> 00:05:16.600 align:middle line:84% This is set in concrete behind Coach House Press, where 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.390 align:middle line:84% Nichol used to work and a lot of his work was published. 00:05:19.390 --> 00:05:24.040 align:middle line:84% And every day, they go out and they fill it up with water. 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:25.510 align:middle line:90% He died in 1944-- 00:05:25.510 --> 00:05:27.610 align:middle line:90% in 1988 at the age of 44. 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:30.670 align:middle line:84% He went in for surgery, expecting the use of his legs, 00:05:30.670 --> 00:05:33.220 align:middle line:90% and died on the table. 00:05:33.220 --> 00:05:36.070 align:middle line:84% So they set this concrete in concrete for him. 00:05:36.070 --> 00:05:38.710 align:middle line:90% 00:05:38.710 --> 00:05:41.110 align:middle line:84% Jenny Holzer, another example of someone 00:05:41.110 --> 00:05:45.380 align:middle line:84% who is sort of serially off the page. 00:05:45.380 --> 00:05:47.218 align:middle line:90% This particular group here-- 00:05:47.218 --> 00:05:48.510 align:middle line:90% I'll show you some other stuff. 00:05:48.510 --> 00:05:54.467 align:middle line:84% But this is just projections she has done. 00:05:54.467 --> 00:05:56.050 align:middle line:84% And what you're looking at is not just 00:05:56.050 --> 00:05:58.930 align:middle line:84% the projection, not just the individual projections 00:05:58.930 --> 00:06:00.550 align:middle line:90% that there's this many of. 00:06:00.550 --> 00:06:02.560 align:middle line:84% Each one of these is a particular installation 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.580 align:middle line:90% that had multiple projections. 00:06:04.580 --> 00:06:07.780 align:middle line:84% So these are-- she's projecting text 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:12.730 align:middle line:84% onto buildings in pretty much this entire series. 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:16.210 align:middle line:84% There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these. 00:06:16.210 --> 00:06:18.820 align:middle line:90% 00:06:18.820 --> 00:06:21.655 align:middle line:84% She's also a wildly prolific tweeter. 00:06:21.655 --> 00:06:25.953 align:middle line:90% 00:06:25.953 --> 00:06:28.120 align:middle line:84% Some other examples of things that she has done that 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.130 align:middle line:90% is off the page. 00:06:30.130 --> 00:06:33.250 align:middle line:84% She just has a real knack for-- not knack. 00:06:33.250 --> 00:06:35.140 align:middle line:90% Desire, I guess. 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:38.740 align:middle line:84% I don't see an awful lot of marriage of the form 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:39.310 align:middle line:90% to the text. 00:06:39.310 --> 00:06:41.140 align:middle line:84% In fact, there seems to me to be almost-- 00:06:41.140 --> 00:06:42.730 align:middle line:84% she almost goes for a dissonance, 00:06:42.730 --> 00:06:46.870 align:middle line:84% for a disconnect, for why the heck is this text set 00:06:46.870 --> 00:06:49.180 align:middle line:84% in bronze on a plate mounted to the wall, 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:52.900 align:middle line:84% and why the heck is this text being followed-- or following 00:06:52.900 --> 00:06:54.070 align:middle line:90% an airplane? 00:06:54.070 --> 00:06:55.070 align:middle line:90% Which I love. 00:06:55.070 --> 00:06:56.500 align:middle line:90% I mean, I think it's great. 00:06:56.500 --> 00:06:59.560 align:middle line:84% This is, like I say, an example of three of hundreds of someone 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:04.525 align:middle line:84% who is hugely prolific in this regard. 00:07:04.525 --> 00:07:05.900 align:middle line:84% This is a guy named John Martone. 00:07:05.900 --> 00:07:09.160 align:middle line:84% And John Martone is a really good guy-- 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:10.897 align:middle line:90% I think he's very off the radar. 00:07:10.897 --> 00:07:12.730 align:middle line:84% I don't think he likes to publish very much. 00:07:12.730 --> 00:07:16.120 align:middle line:84% Every time I invite him, he sends me a work, 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.900 align:middle line:84% and he sends me all sorts of handmade things all the time. 00:07:19.900 --> 00:07:22.045 align:middle line:84% But he's not really actively seeking publication. 00:07:22.045 --> 00:07:23.510 align:middle line:90% He's a very zen guy. 00:07:23.510 --> 00:07:25.040 align:middle line:90% He makes his own books. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:29.350 align:middle line:84% But he also makes a lot of pieces where he is writing 00:07:29.350 --> 00:07:32.232 align:middle line:90% right on natural objects. 00:07:32.232 --> 00:07:33.940 align:middle line:84% This-- if you can't read his handwriting, 00:07:33.940 --> 00:07:36.430 align:middle line:90% this is "Forgive my being slow." 00:07:36.430 --> 00:07:38.320 align:middle line:84% And this is a milkweed pod, which, 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:41.260 align:middle line:84% if you're familiar with the milkweed pod at all-- 00:07:41.260 --> 00:07:42.670 align:middle line:84% I mean, when they opened, they're 00:07:42.670 --> 00:07:47.290 align:middle line:84% filled with bazillions of milkweed seeds. 00:07:47.290 --> 00:07:49.330 align:middle line:84% But they-- but it does take forever for them 00:07:49.330 --> 00:07:52.330 align:middle line:84% to open and explode with what they have. 00:07:52.330 --> 00:07:57.020 align:middle line:84% And he has pieces that are on tree bark, all sorts of things. 00:07:57.020 --> 00:07:58.658 align:middle line:84% He does a lot of-- a lot of his pieces 00:07:58.658 --> 00:08:00.700 align:middle line:84% are sculptural out in nature, and he doesn't even 00:08:00.700 --> 00:08:02.630 align:middle line:84% tell any about them-- people about them. 00:08:02.630 --> 00:08:05.050 align:middle line:84% So you may be hiking in the woods sometime in Illinois, 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:07.450 align:middle line:84% and you'll come across a John Martone piece. 00:08:07.450 --> 00:08:08.700 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE]