The lost and found of meanings through layers of translation.
The lost and found of meanings through layers of translation.
Performance, Performance System, 2020
Carrie Sijia Wang
In this video, text from a book by Wang Xiaobo loops through layers of mediation by my voice, the microphone on my macbook pro, speech-to-text API, and google translate. Some words are lost to simplicity, some replaced by phrases closer to the tech-centric, consumerist world these technologies live in (e.g. “Starbucks” and “Huawei” are among the words the program hears). And occasionally, poetry is refound in between the reconstructed lines.