Some possible audio clips for the installation Future Archaeology.
Version 1:
Future Archaeology short V 1 by telewriting
Version 2:
Furture Archaeology V 2 by telewriting
Four pieces from Meaning in Mistakes, a series of 10 etched mirrors.
I began Meaning in Mistakes a few months ago. The initial idea came to me after receiving an email from a friend containing a short description of an experiment carried out at Carnegie Melon by the linguistics department. The research demonstrated the ability of readers to understand a block of text where the first character and last character of each word remain in place but the order of the inner characters is altered. For exmalpe lkie tihs. Most readers have little to no difficulty understanding a sentence like the former and this ease is attributed to the way in which we read; we look at the overall shape of a word rather than the individual letters. However, context must also play a part in this “reconstruction” as there must be a series of characters with the potential to be seen as at least 2 different words.
There are baseball infiedls.
There are non-religious infiedls.
Above, the character set infiedls is exactly a single character transposition from infidels or infields.
What interests me here is the notion of perception as an active rather than passive activity and the associations which may emerge between the coupled words. The viewer forms the set of characters into one more familiar. In this movement the viewer maintains their essential part in the relationship between the object being perceived and the subject perceiving the object. Tautologically, we see the world the way we do because that’s what we do.
Recently, I made a few short video pieces, sketches really, which seemed a bit out of step with most of my recent work. Not having a “natural place”, I decided to host them on youtube and vimeo instead of the usual. But while a service like youtube gives you the opportunity to share videos that is also its limitation; there’s no place for content other than video on youtube. The initial thought of “work that doesn’t quite fit with one’s usual medium, methodology, etc” along with the desire to have a place to house diverse content is what led me to start this site.
While in the process of a working through a project I do many things: read, collect materials, do research, and so on. I often abandon the project leaving both result and process unseen. And while I find publishing or holding on to everything a tad narcissistic, the adverse can be stifling. Without an audience work can become overly insular and antisocial. Without a retrospective eye one can to lose a sense of development and relatedness between works. On the other hand, gathering diverse material within a single chronological narrative (a blog) has its own problems. Why not let that which is outside remain so? But for the time being my concerns are more centered on the former and so here are 3 videos to be followed shortly by a fourth.