documentation clip of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (Virtual)" by Ken Feingold (2003)

The subjects of the conversations among these three floating, drifting heads, circle around several basic questions regarding humans and nature. And of course, because these are conversations between computer programs, they produce really only an appearance of meaning, and through this, a critique of our meta-discourse. Various questions are "examined" through direct conversational exchanges among the three heads. But beyond these discussions themselves lies another level of inquiry, one about how it is possible to create conversations (or participate in them) in which meaning is not what drives the exchanges forward, but simply words themselves. The characters do not really have any notion of meaning, but only are provoked by words and phrases; yet they manage to carry on endlessly varied conversations. --kf 2003

non-repeating realtime computer animation, digital projection; installation dimensions variable

commissioned for 'BitParts' by FACT [The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology], Liverpool and funded by West Midlands Arts (UK)

software based in part on work done in collaboration with Boriana Koleva, Gideon May and Adolph Mathias at ZKM Karlsruhe, 1998

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