Com<->Space

Nabi Art Center / SKT Building installation, Seoul, Korea

Generative Graphics / Video / Text / Soundtrack

with Yeong-woong Cheong

Communication<->Space or Com<->Space (2007), is a collaboration between Korean graphic designer/programmer Yeong-woong Cheong and Seaman. The work expands Seaman's set of exhibitions related to the Thoughtbody Environment and Neosentience [ongoing collaboration with Otto Rossler] and extends Yeong-woong Cheong's work in terms of computer graphics/video generative systems. A large-scale generative visual poem is presented on a number of large format screens in the lobby and outside of the SK building, Seoul. The poem addresses the notion of "communication" from many perspectives. Seaman shot video in Seoul and across the Korean countryside. A combinatoric poem Seaman explores many notions of the space of communication and the poetic communication of space. The work addresses many different forms of communication, person to person, person to machine, machine to person, machine to machine, body to mind, mind to body, neosentient machine to neosentient machine, person to neosentient machine, neosentient machine to person, environment to person, person to environment.

Video images juxtapose the "moving" motion-graphics visual poem and are presented in the dynamic multi-screen format of the SK building. The engages the general public. A large set of video segments form a database that is drawn from, to juxtapose with the poetic text in an open, chance-oriented, ongoing, generative manner. It explores the beauty of the everyday and all that it communicates (Recombinant Poetics). Seaman composed an IDM ambient techno track that plays in the building lobby, repeating every hour, falling in with the flow of the changing poetic space of images and text.

Text

Com<->Space
The Architecture of Association

Traffic | flow | speaks in volumes

Lights out | in the building

A language | of scratches | a language | of dents

Scale | of the body | in relation

A machine | in its own tongue

Talking | (through a) machine |

Reading | landscapes | faces | of evolution

Machines | coming | to feel | communions

Bodies | different parts | of themselves

Becoming transparent | closed eyes | extended gaze

Yelling | from across the lake | space of distance | echoes | collapsing

Pleasing | machinic | rhythms

Hunger | thirst | pain | abstraction drives

The fields | summing | machinic trajectories

Color | speaks | and sings | a physics of presence

Position | of a perfume | odor | a residue

The world | communicates itself | as we | come to know it

We neither gather | nor decipher | in entireties

A structural coupling | enables | a new nature | for exchange

Circle of intention | circle of reception | the overlaps | gaps | and gapes

Signs | biological | reading is the machinic | continuously redefined | by nature

Machines handshakes | intermingle in | bidirectional flow

Biomachines | molecular language | informational substances | formalisable emotions

Nano-shifts | accidental seas | self-replication

Multiple cicadas | signal presence | songs of heat | drone into afternoon

Positioning the body | folded arms | signal set | sighted | sent

Subway station | navigational entropy

Momentum shifts | energy web | location flows | tunnels into | computers of pure light

Interconnecting | infinite machinic | indeterminacy

Re-communicate | forces of time | re-skin the fold | in time’s signature

Synthetic senses | machinic extensions | augmentation potential

Sweat responds | desire | without words | remains aloft

Machinic bodies | learn to learn | via absorption

Tumble positions | body memory | chemical physics

Physical registering | of synthetic muscles | sight of sympathetic bodies | machinic responses

Air passing lips | tongues forming | shapes repeating | passages | robotic subtlety

Misuse | lack of use | a new use | to translate | and define

Pattern flows | of all manner | polysensing

Construction | language | reconfiguration

Illusions of stasis | speaking time | subtle staining

The communication of disease | city street | desertion

Communication | infinite parts | intra-folding

Chemical baths | transmission | pivoting connection | electrochemical change

A word | leaves | a sour | taste on | parsing

A bow | sending | trust conveyed | in bending | conventions

Biomachines | come to speak | of themselves

Changing light | branches open | interlocking | yet words | escape | our exchanges

Breath and words | one space | of communication <-> communication of space | breathing

Gestural | conveyance | machinic gestures | space across domains

A new word | is always | coming | into being | falling away

Fallen lines | forgotten frames | faint recollections | synthetic memories

Spaces | spell out chance | nature | in a manner | of operation

Never knowing | intelligence in itself | the process | of coming to know it

Categories of categories exploded | transcending | Turing‚s limitations

A machine | coming to know | the feelings | that words evoke

The ability | to effortlessly | shift and reapply | knowing the position | of context

Machine searches | machine response | weighing words

The space | communicates nature | as the neosentient | comes to know it

Speak in the dark | past | bodily measures | of relations | now machinic

Speaking now | less in words | codes | that mingle and transgress

Definitions | folding | constantly | collapsing | notions | of the alive

Words | rounded at the edges | we exchange | thinking we know | the space | of the other

Submersion | in water | tells us | of our need to breathe | or lack thereof

Harsh sunlight | shows off | the nature | of synthetic skins

Rains | speak directly | of force and positionality | of shelter | for waterproof bodies

Umbrellas collapse | inverting | the wind

One entity | falls in relation | to another | together | they speak of a third

Pulling | from the open catalogue | of disparate location | memories navigate | the present

In situ | pattern of gestures | repositioning | a pattern | of robotic moves | and relations

A smile | synthetic | the nature of exchange

Change of expression | light signals | numbers | of approaching coordinates

Exchange and examine cards | mechanisms of exchange | silent codes rewarded

Reactive gesture | flow of movement | human thought

The words | that escaped me | have found | a new home

Angle | of the glance | attentiveness | of the return

Position | of authority | position | of submission

Position | of uncertainty | states of inertia | state of rest

Reflective sound | the wall | speaks| of material | nature

Intonation | of the voice | positioning weakness | position of strength

The language | of enlightenment | position of ambivalence | position of light?

Synthetic transductions | repeat | synthetic transductions | repeat

Streams of re-entry | coming to one's senses | the machinic senses | of themselves

Change of heart | change of mind | surrogate heart | surrogate senses

Human | bio-machine | language | abstraction | potential

A kind of machine | forms the impetus | for another | reciprocally

Losses of memory | speak to each other | retrieval of | an open exchange | a wound

Fluid tongue | taste for language | sound | of certain voice

Physical shape | ear | as it amplifies | sound | machinic amplification

Sound | cancellation | points | invisible use | and machinic silence

Decay | of word | as it reflects | a disappearance | particular nature of the space | of reception

The imparting | of language | from culture | a touching | reciprocal action

Transduce | the multi-valent | experience | in code ˜ transduction | of layered spaces

Remove | the sound | from the word

Send | code across | a nervous system |dispersions

Transfer energy | woven states | ons and offs

Vocabulary | arrives | before | consciousness | mirroring | mirroring

Acquisition | builds up | in contextual | understanding

Code | a subset | of language operations | the specificity | of (machinic) | contexts

A bonding | machine | to biomachine | messaging

Knowledgebody | of the human | translated | artifactual | the physics | of transmission

Co-mingling | within | the machinic realm | a neosentience | reveals itself

Code | potential| moves | from one machine | to another | without translation

The neo-network | of machinic | sense | patterns memories

The nature | of language | acquisition | ever shifting | emphasis

Breathing | on a mirror | writing | on a word | breath

Inscribing | a word in breath | a word in stone | a word | on wind

Release | your burst | of tuned air | near this silent whisper

Moving hands | of the deaf | robotic | listener

Touching | palm as signal | a word | com<->space | an intelligence | rendered in braille

A word as opening | and a closure | cross species

Layers | of perception | language | nuanced | the tenses | muscle | of tongue | and taste

Tongue tied | and tipsy at times | tampering | with tongues

Break away places | pieces back | together again | contexts

On the wind of a breath | this vibration | internal contexts

Moving the hand ˆ this ink | moving the keys ˆ this light | the observation | fields in perception

Individual sense | recalling | an anxiety | triggering an | entirety

Vehicles | placeholders | variables | containers | trains of thought

Structural | coupling | touched with light | sound | smell | muscles of the mouth and face | biomimetic

The diaphanous membrane | oscillating | at will | force the air | back and forth | harmony

Cup an | ultraviolet light | purified metal | on the teeth | material communications | of energy

Heated words | violent gestures | hand configurations | symbolic language

Code | and actions | reciprocally | enfolding

Enable | a functionality | that can not | be broken | that need not | be spoken

A field | that reflects | its workings | surrogate synapses | firing | a chemical endeavor

Spoken space | touches | movement | tongues more than | vibration | resonant frequencies

Etched words | cast words | code words | ironed words | motions

Entry | a swift | motion fingers | self-generating | code

Seaman - 2007