» artist statement:
Digital technology has impacted various realms of society. The way one views a program, virus, email, text message, podcast - ranges from naivete to fear. People don't often view these agents as language, but at the heart of each lies a structure of commands, much as our own DNA and RNA executes TCGA sequences to compose ourselves. Code, Language, and these forms of communication between clients and servers, friends and bosses, shape the framework of our commerce. The methods in which we engage and frame our interactions with these media is often neglected, seen as inconsequential or second nature. In my work I delegate between function and disfunction, the use and misuse or the purpose or purposelessness of technology in the output that i create. In this piece specifically I am striving to break the wall in which we've constructed around our interactions and methods of communicating via digital media. I wish to create a transparency between the function of email and the connection it traces between send and receive. I hope to map the connections between us and how our language is circumspect and conscious to our intent and whom-ever we engage with.
@reply-all is a webpage I've authored to enable users to construct emails, and as they do so the application checks and retrieves the author's text against all existing - previously written - text that matches the current text. The user has the option to insert this text by pressing the 'tab' key, which injects the phrase that matched within the database. Additionally, each new user, after writing their first email, generate a brief profile of themselves, made from questions that bring about the body and time in which they composed this email. When matching text is found, the profile of the corresponding user comes up as well as the text they wrote. There is no "To:" field, rather the application chooses who to send the email to within the network of previous users, based on who's text the current email matched the most.
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