Installation at the University of Plymouth.
Private view: Roland Levinsky building
Room 101
Friday 13th of June 2008
Public view: Saturday 14th June 2008.


The dark room contains a book; which appears as suspended. The darkened space of the cinema (from the public event) has been recreated within an intimate space where the spatial size is transformed into a different kind of relationship to the screen. Here, there is no option to turn the pages of this book (Something that is fixed but not fixed).

The image to the left displays what appears to be a static portrait yet is in a state of flux, very slowly morphing across the community of others (see the ‘convergent evolution’ under the 'Re[product]ions' tab above). The text on the other page is a live feed of the tag cloud generated by users in photo-sharing sites to this website and will update as images and tags are added by users. The tag cloud is read aloud to the viewer via an electronic voice and will repeat at one minute intervals. This is a form of documentation of the start of the exhibition. The tag cloud feed will change as users add more tags and is displayed as the page refreshes (at a one minute interval).  Whereas the voice reads the start of the exhibition, the tags display the point in time at which the viewer encounters the screen. This voice is deliberately mechanized to avoid human identification (as in keeping with the concept of this project). The final day of the exhibition will display the current tags, marking the end point of the exhibition whilst the voice repeats its start.

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