Nicolas Boillot

is an artist specialized in digital art. Some of his work is oriented around the notion of information flow. He develops devices that, through arrangement, accumulation, new configuration, aim to generate possible interpretations, making hidden sides evident, creating new ways to read or interpret information flows.

.urler

in collaboration with Pierre Bourdareau

 
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.urler - May 2006

 

The world is already so full of images, what’s the point of adding more ?
.urler serves, for a start, to show how vast an area they cover.
.urler is a conceptual device based on random methods.
.urler converts words into images … or else it puts to test the thaumaturgical power of words.

 

Basically, the idea is to attempt a poetical “assembling” of software, to work out a fast link between a speech recognition software and a search engine on Internet. The underlying logic is both efficient and deceptive, in as much as a semantic link can be established (rightly or wrongly) between randomly chosen sound indicators and their visual equivalents, producing relationships in the nature of metonymy, misinterpretation…

 

"tous" (screenshot) - May 2006

 

"être" (screenshot) - May 2006

 

.urler - Le temps des appareils - Part 2, Le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux, France - the 23th of May, 2006