Encycloplasticity - installation view (july 2010 Geneva)
This work has been elaborated as a vast bricolage of several points brought up in my overall research on knowledge technologies.
The installation consists of 5 “bibliothèques renversées” (upside down bookcases or knocked down bookcases), named in this way after an entree in the 1750’s Dictionnaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial ... by Philibert-Joseph Le Roux; a set of self-made black and white posters (consisting of A3s stuck together) providing what I would call a parallel discourse to the overall research mostly in words; and a set of 5 inkjet printers connected to a computer in its turn connected to internet that would due to a self written program (script) generate random Wikipedia articles and then send one article at the time to one of the five printers (the articles would then slide down from a cardboard slide into a archive box).
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