ReSource (2016)
HD video, Full HD, loop
Collaboration with Gill Baldwin
ReSource is composed of a patchwork of recycled magazine pages. New sentences, poetry and narratives formed from the magazine’s text are recombined in a process of recycled meaning-creation. The work explores the limits of recycling: if new forms and spaces can be created out of recycled material, can content be recycled and given new meaning? The magazine pages are originally run through an online OCR program that can convert all text found on the pages into editable text. Using a Markov text generator, the text from these pages is re-written into new sentences. In its simplest terms, using a Markov generator allows the programmer to join words together in sequence, with each new word being selected based on how often it follows the previous word in the source document. While not always coherent, the results are often poetic.
