Exhibitions, Canada, Montréal, 28 August 2019
"Keyword Freethought" is composed of language-based artworks that are the result of the "symbiotic" cooperation between the artist's imagination and custom software for generating sentences and transforming words into nonverbal visual motifs and sounds.
Central to the concept of "Keyword: Freethought" is the creation of physical analogue of the mental space where freethoughts manifest themselves as words, sounds and images without fear of being misunderstood or deemed offensive
The focal point of the exhibition is the Universal Thought Player. Viewers are invited to express their thoughts by typing them directly on the alphabetized piano keys of the Thought Player. The typed thoughts are then expressed as sequences of musical motives to be heard. By communicating thoughts the way that neither Google, nor Facebook or any of the many big brothers of the world can decode, the Thought Player gives a peculiar answer to the question of how to ascertain the free expression of thoughts in the age of mass surveillance.
The player is surrounded by the 3D collage "They sentenced me to 40 GB of silence" and the multi-panel wall arrangements "Freedom equations" and "To whom it may concern".
"They sentenced me to 40 GB of silence" contains 40 GB of freethoughts about freedom of speech communicated the way I have chosen to freely express them - as ungoogleable silence and indecipherable abstractions.
"Freedom equations" is composed of an open book with lexical equations that represent complex thoughts by equating pairs of verbal expressions. "After + life = freedom" is an example of a lexical equation. The book is surrounded by a series of subjective visual renditions of different lexical equations.
"To whom it may concern" is composed of a series of messages-in-images and one "Message -in-a-looking-glass" all of them differently communicating the motto of "Keyword Freethought" which is: Since the emergence of the Universe, never has there been another like you, your mind is the biggest wonder of the world, your thoughts are the greatest miracle on Earth.
Central to the concept of "Keyword: Freethought" is the creation of physical analogue of the mental space where freethoughts manifest themselves as words, sounds and images without fear of being misunderstood or deemed offensive
The focal point of the exhibition is the Universal Thought Player. Viewers are invited to express their thoughts by typing them directly on the alphabetized piano keys of the Thought Player. The typed thoughts are then expressed as sequences of musical motives to be heard. By communicating thoughts the way that neither Google, nor Facebook or any of the many big brothers of the world can decode, the Thought Player gives a peculiar answer to the question of how to ascertain the free expression of thoughts in the age of mass surveillance.
The player is surrounded by the 3D collage "They sentenced me to 40 GB of silence" and the multi-panel wall arrangements "Freedom equations" and "To whom it may concern".
"They sentenced me to 40 GB of silence" contains 40 GB of freethoughts about freedom of speech communicated the way I have chosen to freely express them - as ungoogleable silence and indecipherable abstractions.
"Freedom equations" is composed of an open book with lexical equations that represent complex thoughts by equating pairs of verbal expressions. "After + life = freedom" is an example of a lexical equation. The book is surrounded by a series of subjective visual renditions of different lexical equations.
"To whom it may concern" is composed of a series of messages-in-images and one "Message -in-a-looking-glass" all of them differently communicating the motto of "Keyword Freethought" which is: Since the emergence of the Universe, never has there been another like you, your mind is the biggest wonder of the world, your thoughts are the greatest miracle on Earth.
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