(non)semantic process [ version with a stone in Beijing ]
2025
Digital images of a stone collectred in Beijing were converted into alphabet sequences by dividing the brightness value of each pixel by 26 and replacing the numerical remainder with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. I then wrote a program to generate English sentences by looking up each alphabet sequence in a dictionary and listing existing words. The English sentences generated may be meaningful. However, they are only significant to humans, not to the wild birds perched on the driftwood or the ground spiders that lived there.
Year
2025
Type
Installation
Site
dimensioins variable
Duration
generative, real-time
Gallery
place where the stone was originary located, mountain region in Beijing