Wayne CLEMENTS is a visual artist and a writer living in London. His recent work involves the selection, generation, and manipulation of text material online. His (non computer) poetry, visual work and prose are published in a number of magazines and books. His sound work (sound poetry) is included in Homo Sonorus, An International Anthology of Sound Poetry (National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, 2001). His artworks are included on the rhizome.org and runme.org repositories of online art, and often shown in exhibitions and festivals of electronic art. Wayne received Award of Distinction for Net Vision at Prix Ars Electronica (2006). He completed a PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 2005, and now works there as a Research Fellow (there is a recent CV here). |
Jet lag in Tokyo
"Although I am a visual artist, most of my work involves using words. So it seemed an obvious step to use a computer. Really computers are just a lot of instructions, and computers can be programmed to do things to words. I call rules and instuctions for doing things to words a "text machine" or "writing machine". Basically the computer would simulate this machine. Actually this is a rather old idea -- the idea that a computer is a machine that simulates other machines. It's Alan Turing's idea. Now, of course computers are networked. Much of my recent work uses this fact, doing different things to writing on the Internet". |