3D Transliteration - Beyond Page and Screen

Inextrinsic poems, like most digital poetry, can be projected. The shapes on which the poems appear become part of inextrinsic meaning. If the shapes are specially designed, as these were, they emphasize certain metaphors or rhythms, or other elements. In the following, the idea is that the pages of a book are like a double wing beat, open, shut. Until the last century, books were printed on large sheets that were then folded and bound (the origin of the terms 'folio', 'quarto' and 'octavo'). New books often came with the folds still uncut. As well as a wing beat, the shape below also refers to the fold.

These shapes were used to explore how writing in digital media can bring new dimensions to viewing, curating and interpreting art in traditional media. In an installation in the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain directly alongside the original JMW Turner paintings, Flights Unflown consisted of a series of projections of inextrinsix, this time as hybrid of poetic and critical digital writing. It followed the groundbreaking e and eye series at Tate Modern, when we juxtaposed digital poetry with Modernist paintings.

The process overall enabled a dynamic exploration relating structures in Turner’s painting to poetic structures in Mallarmé. The result is a new art work, made up of critique, ekphrasis, poetry, sculpture, and oil paint, the whole suggesting mobile interrelations and transpositions.

With my collaborator, John Cayley, I'm currently working on bringing this to architecture. In this work, projection isn't just a means to an end. It is part of the whole active process of making. Thus, architecture becomes part of the Inextrinsic process, right through from the writing to the reading. Watch this space!