Words used to generate the works:
«restoration», «community», «europe», «wound», «luguber», «wahrheit», «memento mori», «augury», «destruction», «signs», «tracks», «bridge», «industrial», «catastrophe», «destruction», «architecture», «radiator», «rural», «urban» and many more
Inner workings:
All words were fed into Google's search engine, the resulting quotes and references were stored in a database to be used as the source of the artworks.
Intentionally using simple, public accessible, carefully selected one-word searches and algorithmically combining the source input, the series generates a self-repeating flow of moving typographical ornamented textual elements (words), on (semi) static images.
Whether because of its sensory effects or because of its intrinsic hermetics, these works tend to manifest a 'new, hitherto hidden', meaning not contained in the, 'rather mundane', original Google results.
A. Andreas (Andreas G. A. Maria Jacobs - NL 1956) is an artist, writer and editor, studied physics and mathematics at the University of Amsterdam NL,
sonology (electronic and computer music) at the State University Utrecht NL and holds a BSc. in software engineering (University of Applied Sciences - The Hague NL).
Among his works are
Ors Vibranter Wurld 2008,
Creative Resistance - New Media as Soft Arms 2007,
Semantic Disturbances 200X,
Fiat Lux 2005 and
Gerausche aus der Helle 1989.
His pieces have appeared in
Hyperhiz:New Media Cultures, Issue 5 2008,
New River Journal (Fall, 2007) and
Nictoglobe (Volume 14 Issue 3, 2005) as well as being performed at various Europian festivals and nightclubs.
An agent for the
Brahamian Intelligence Service }|{
Online. He has publiced essays in
project.Arnolfini (UK 2008),
seecult.org (Serbia 2007),
MetaMute (UK 2007) among others.
He is publisher/editor of
Nictoglobe magazine, ISSN 1874-9534, online since 1986!
An irregular contributor to
Poetry Kessel-Lo Belgium and the
Theory and Wryting mailinglist.
A. Andreas is currently living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Walkenried, Germany with
Judith V. and their 3 children.
More of their work can be found at
Nictoglobe.
