VVORK

»The Allens«, 2004. A sound and video installation where a computer program continuosly changes between the different vocal incarnations of Woody Allen. By Erik Bünger.

»Synchronisation Dubbing«, 1998. The ever same scene of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver translated to seven languages. By Harun Farocki.

»Netacronyms«, 2007 by Marisa Olson.

»Semiotics of the Kitchen«, 1975 by Martha Rosler.

“vvork twitter” a project by Guthrie Lonergan.

»Sentence No. 2 Which Consists of 1007 Palindromic Coined Words«, 2003, by Hideki Nakazawa.

“Umwelt II (Run)” by Rob Seward.

»pigeons aligner«, 1996.

»totalmaxigoldmachine2000«. A soundtrack consisting of very short samples of dance music hits, broadcast non-stop and very loud in one of the rooms at the exhibition of Negotiations, at the CRAC in Sète, on the theme of trade and capitalism. »mmmmmm«, 2000. Monologue lasting about 50 minutes in which the aphasic Michel Prades talks about his relation to language, the poems he writes, and the accident that caused his handicap. This soundtrack was broadcast in the streets of Cahors by the loudspeaker system normally used to announce commercial services. By Boris Achour.

Life Support Systems – Vanda is an attempt to analyze electrical signals from the vanda hybrida orchid, and apply language modeling techniques to these signals in a computer. The result is a virtual model, which continues to generate similar signals long after the original orchids are gone – a kind of computerized longevity. Mateusz Herczka