Independent Study

For one of my classes I did an independent study. I set out with a vague goal of creating a video piece that incorporated text into an environment. Eventually that turned into text being the driving force rather than being inserted into something. Here's the video:

When I Was Young from Harrison Simon on Vimeo.

Work Progressed!

Here's my final project!

OROBOROS

It's meant to be played / projected on a loop.

Work in Progress

For my art class I'm currently working a project dealing with spam mail. I found two spam messages in my spam-box that were for ordering Eastern European brides. Like all spam mail it was worded strangely. I built off of this aspect by having the computer transcribe the email and then feed it through a speech recognition program. I repeated this several times till the message were even more incomprehensible. I'm going to be taking the speech recordings and creating a video piece out of them. For now I have just made a text piece out of them.