The installation deliberately uses Lorem Ipsum - text that occupies space without conveying specific meaning - as a constant reference point while visual elements beneath it experience transformations. This mirrors what Wilden identifies in his theoretical framework: “All digitalization generates paradox or oscillation at some level in the system.” The text represents the structured, discrete nature of digital encoding, while the evolving visual feedback undered shows the continuous flux and contextual nature of analog reality.
By layering analog and digital visual assets that respond to and transform one another, the work physically manifests Galloway’s philosophical conception that “the digital means the one dividing in two” while "the analog means the two coming together as one." The visual feedback loops demonstrate how these opposing yet complementary processes continuously reshape information.
“Word” express how our consciousness exists in a constant state of translation between these realms - neither purely digital nor analog, but emerging from the continuous threshold-crossing between discrete and continuous modes of understanding our world.
video and music by me.
Credit:
WILDEN, ANTHONY. “Analog and digital communication: On the relationship between negation, signification, and the emergence of the discrete element.” Semiotica, vol. 6, no. 1, 1972, https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1972.6.1.50.