FINAL POETRY INSTALLATION

 In a final development from the gallery installations, I expanded the number of poems and greatly deconstructed the layout. I wanted to create the impression of a glitched, surreal presentation, as if the technology used was actually having an effect on the physical presentation of the works. The installation is intended to look like a homely setting, almost overrun by the malfunctioning picture frames. This was an attempt to replicate the processes and methods of glitch artists, but on tangible objects. I believe it is this which is the largest indicator of the impact that collaboration with technology had, as the poems themselves do not necessarily indicate this without some form of explanation.

Human generated glitches

To add to the physical-glitch wall installation I generated further glitches from other auto-predictive text experiments and other cut and repeated elements of poetry. 

Artist research and inspiration

David Sauzdr

"Failed Memories" - series c.2012 ongoing

Took old photographs and used digital processes to glitch and distort them. Often depicting humans with distortion focused around the head and face. This not only represents the deterioration of memory, but also an acknowledgement of the way in which human memory can be linked to digital in terms of faulty recall and corruption.

Inspiration

It is in particular his treatment of human memory as that of a digital one- alluding to data loss and corruption, which I want to take further, exploring the boundary between human creation and recall and digital interference.

Artist research and inspiration

Peder Norrby

Contemporary digital artist

- Creates illusions of three-dimensional objects and spaces digitally with interactive drawings and virtual models.

- mapglitch series - documentation of glitches within 3D map application, showing areas and objects with unusual stretches and distortions.

Inspiration 

- I want to flip these illusions to create physically manifested 'glitches'.

THE FUNERAL

My laptop's funeral has been solely documented on "The cultured mobile" blog, which seemed more fitting as it was documented by other phones and devices who were in attendance. Audience members were encouraged to document the event in whatever way they saw appropriate, as the cultural norms of a technological funeral are not properly defined. Photographs and films can be found in the side panels of the blog.

https://mobilephonechats.blogspot.co.uk/

New Street- UNA Pop Up Exhibition

- Hung to create a falling illusion, wanting to signify something 'other' or unusual in addition to the words themselves so that the viewer would be drawn in to explore it.

King Street - UNA exhibition

- More formal hanging style, but still out of place and slightly disjointed
- Included paper publications of the haikus for distribution
- Performed the poems using phone text-to-speech application

Portraits

Once again, my phone automatically chose and stung together pictures I had taken. I decided to display these in the phone blog without editing, allowing it complete creative control.