Chris Rodley, Andrew Burrell: Death Of An Alchemist
Title:
- Death Of An Alchemist
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
- ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Creation Year:
- 2015
Medium:
- Database novel
Artist Statement:
Death of an Alchemist is a novel written with data: a literary narrative generated in real time from online information. In the story, a present-day narrator logs onto the Internet to investigate the death of Johannes Trithemius, a German abbot and alchemist who died in 1516. He left behind a mysterious book, the Steganographia, which is to contain the hidden secrets of the universe disguised in code. The work consists of a wall of projected text and symbols that is generated by scraping a range of online data sources for news headlines, social media posts, gifs, memes and more. As the text flickers and updates with each new piece of data that is received, readers are invited to follow the clues to unravel the mystery of the Steganographia and discover who killed Trithemius and why.
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Category:
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- Chris Rodley
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