With the help of a sentence-generating program geared at putting out sentences
with or without adjectives, this work ends up showing the limits of the
machine's creating potential.
By means of a statement-generating program, the work invites visitors
to make up sentences and insert either none, or one or two adjectives,
or leave this choice at random. This activity, based on simple foundations,
gives rise to an extremely instructive examination of language and
its structure.
The statements without adjective appear definitely more directing and
authoritative while those which include epithets moderate the remarks.
The integration
of two adjectives quickly turns the statement into forms that are either
affected or obscure. These differences are accentuated when the visitor
lets the machine form sentences randomly. They succeed each other in
opposition. On occasion, the machine achieves pretty amalgams, worthy
of poetry. The
proposals relate to art, language, technology, and offer various points
of view on the world. Gradually, the artificial character of the sentences
stands out and reveals the insufficiency of this automated literature.
Not without humour, the work makes fun of the naive belief that the
machine
can eventually replace the human mind. Moreover, it casts an amused
glance at the theoretical, philosophical or common considerations
swamping us every
day with a tone of authority.
Sylvie Parent
Le magazine électronique du CIAC No.9