Digital poem. Installation comprising: computer, shelf, projector, Johnson’s dictionary (1785 edition) and, as support, “Quotation Marks” by the late Ali Acerol, piles of books, screenprint of painting with digital poem.

Detail showing digital poem running below screenprint with words from same poem.

Detail showing digital poem projected on to Johnson’s Dictionary 1785 edition (open at page defining ‘apocalypse’), balanced on Ali Acerol’s work, ‘Quotation Marks’ on top of pile of books.

Still from Hybrid Digital Movie & Poem Installation

(Custom “Inextrinsic” Digital Readers, iPhone & Sony HD SR12, 2018. Loop 8 mins.)

Virtual Smile (Autocapture) is an exploration of identity, combining video selfies of the artist with voiceover and projection of poems she has written and programmed, and with dictionary definitions of the two main words in the title: ‘virtual’ and ‘smile’.

All aspects of this work were developed out of each other: the movies were shot to express aspects of the digital poem; the four principal elements of the digital poem were developed out of the filming and editing process.

So it is one piece, a hybrid of technologised identities.

NOTE: “Inextrinsic” is a word coined to embody a contradiction, or tension (‘in-ex’); it foregrounds ways of thinking without oppositions. Like things that are inextricable.

Installation Tremenheere Gallery 2018.