Reader-in-Residence: Is, but will be
('ve) said a mouthful v1 is an interactive poem coded as a web application. A dataset of found English onomatopoeia words and one of default HTML color names are mapped onto a 10 x 10 grid and shuffled through clicking. When the mouse hovers over the individual grid, the browser's text-to-speech feature would be triggered to read the word iterating through 47 different voices from different regions around the world. Reading English's roman spelling from the mouths of 47 different languages generates new phonetic possibilities and interweaves new (un)meanings.
—Xuan Ye
To explore this interactive web application, visit app.pureapparat.us/mouthful.
('ve) said a mouthful v1
A Reader-in-Residence response to Is, but will be by Xuan Ye.
Across the eight-part lightbox series Burning Glass, Reading Stone, the Blackwood activates a Reader-in-Residence program that brings eight readers into dialogue with eight suites of images. Adapting the familiar artist’s residency format to one that focuses on practices of reading—reading an exhibition, reading a text, reading as interpretation—each reader-in-residence respond to a specific series of works presented in the Blackwood Gallery’s lightboxes.
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