Title |
Autopian Fiction |
Author |
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Date |
2014 |
Description |
As Jean-Francois Lyotard discusses, a work of graphic art embodies the context within which it comes to exist; it ‘is not just good to sell things. It is always an object of circumstances, and consequently ephemeral’ [1]. Autopian Fiction realises the potential of this truism in examining the jarring contrast between two ideologies of production — that of William Morris, and that of Apple. Generating a reader (iTunes Text To Speech), and scribe (Apple Enhanced Dictation), allows for Morris' words to be reconsidered as a performative publishing relay at various speeds. Specifically, three intervals of authorship are set at 0.5X, 1.0X, and 2.0X. The voice used throughout is the Siri equivalent for Mac, available within Apple Enhanced Dictation as 'Samantha'. This relay sees programmer overhaul author [2]— a variable system replaces individual reality. The text becomes more like a data set, something to be analysed in terms of signal and noise [3]. Outliers reveal an inherent bias, the hard-coded ideology that governs this context of production. Slow version: authorship set at a rate of 0.5X; regular version: authorship set at a rate of 1.0X; fast version: authorship set at a rate of 2.0X. 1. Lyotard, J. (2013). Paradox on the Graphic Artist. In M. Rock (Ed.), Multiple signatures: On designers, authors, readers and users. New York: Rizzoli. 2. Gross, L. J. (2013). Data Born Stories. Retrieved from http://traumawien.at/DATABORNSTORIES.pdf 3. Goldsmith, K. (2011). Revenge of the Text. In Uncreative Writing : Managing Language in the Digital Age (p. 28). |
 From the independent graduation exhibition No Service.  From the independent graduation exhibition No Service.  From the independent graduation exhibition No Service.  From the independent graduation exhibition No Service. |
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Medium |
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Volumes |
3 |
Size |
6x9” |
Pages |
Slow version: 260; regular version: 266; fast version: 166 |
Typefaces |
GZA Seminegra, designed by Phillip Hermann with Mirco Scavione; Helvetica Neue Regular. |
Technology |
iTunes Text to Speech, Apple Enhanced Dictation, Print on Demand |
Process |
An excerpt from an autonomous publishing relay between iTunes Text-to-speech and Apple Enhanced Dictation. |
Platform |
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Source Materials |
News From Nowhere: Or, An Epoch of Rest – Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance by William Morris, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3261. Originally published by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892. |
Download |
NewsFromNowhere_0.5 (741kb); NewsFromNowhere_1.0 (759kb); NewsFromNowhere_2.0 (509kb) |
Event |
No Service, independent graduation exhibition curated by Dexter Edwards, |
Keywords |
algorithm, authorship, graphic design, process, production, quantification, reading, writing |
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ID |
134 |