PixelPollock [2002]

Background:

At the entrance of City University of Hong Kong there was a notice board for Students to post their opinions on the wall, this wall is called "Democratic Wall". After a renovation work the wall was moved to another location which people do not see easily. Students claimed the school did not carry out sufficient consultation among students and staffs while the school said they have already discuss this issue with student representatives.

Artist statement:

When I heard about letterist, and how they break down sentences and words into basic component-letters, I immediately think about the basic component in an image. But for an image, we don't really sure about the basic component, is it a drop of oil paint? Or a brush of water? For digital images, we usually consider pixels as their basic component. So I tried to work from that point (pixel). Perhaps it is just a new way of composing sound poem. But actually I would like to focus on the relationship between images to text/coding system especially numbering system. Jackson Pollock always tries to free painting from imitating other forms of art. When it is digitized, all these will just become a bunch of digits, nothing is different from other kind of data. Part b part I break down an image to pixel and to coding and then back into something we can pronounce. 

Abstract:

Each pixels of the imported image will be transformed into hexadecimal code, the codes include letters and numbers will be further transformed following some rules. 0-9 is respectively replaced by g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q and r. And then all a and e will be replaced by space. Then we will have the space between strings without any vow sounds. Then 5 vow sound in English a, e, I, o and u will be put between each character. The text file will then be read out by a speech to text software and produce a sound poem base on the image.

 

 

 

Links:

[Link to the sound poem ]
[Link to the poem (text) ]

Hamlet's cv

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