VERBARIUM developed for the CARTIER Foundation, Paris (c) 99, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU online work click here: verbarium supported by IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences,
Japan
Concept: VERBARIUM is an interactive text-to-form editor on the Internet. At
the VERBARIUMÕs web site, on-line user can choose to write text messages
and each of these messages functions as a genetic code to create a visual
three-dimensional form. A special text-to-form editor ensures the genetic
encoding of text characters (=letters) into design functions. It provides
constantly new images that are not any more pre-defined by the artist but
instead develop in real-time through the interaction of the user with the
system. Each different message creates a different form. Depending on the
composition of the text, the forms can either be simple or complex, or
abstract or organic. All text messages together are used to build a collective
and complex three-dimensional image. This image is like a virtual herbarium,
composed of the various forms based on the different text messages (i.e.,
verbs), hence the name VERBARIUM. |