Nicolas Boillot

.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…

 

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"tous" (screenshot) – May 2006

 

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"être" (screenshot) – May 2006

 

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