Art220/
Fall 2004
Project 2
Title: Word 2027- Blade Runner Version
Description:
Word 2027/ Blade Runner Version is the vocabulary and text swapping pseudo
software toy which arbitrarily chooses words for its users who are in a certain
character’s mode. It gives players the sense of being in another characters’
“shoes”.
There are four modes in this project: Deckard mode, Rachael mode, Roy mode,
and Pris mode. By sorting out the most frequently used words for each character
of the film Blade Runner, each character’s most used words are selected
alphabetically and stored in the project. By “typing” into the
“keyboard”, each text field outputs words which are frequently
used by characters of each different mode.
There is also the interactive introduction of language categories in the project.
Each description accompanies the images which behave differently. Some images
will intervene by being visible throughout the scenes once they are unknowingly
activated by its users (meaning, by selecting the contents of the menu). The
reason the coded images become visible entities throughout the scenes when
they are activated are to imply and to playfully visualize that of the behaviors
of OOP (object oriented programming) in Microsoft Word, for example. The inner
interrelations of behaviors of most software are hidden from its users, and
they are invisible while users do not know its unseen carried out behaviors.
Concept:
The
film Blade Runner depicts the melting pot of languages. The film conveys somewhat
in a manner of utopia in communication, because people in the film speak foreign
and hybridized, incorporated languages while listeners understand them. In
actuality, most people are not multilingual. The worst dystopic case is war
– each side does not know their opponent’s language.
Everybody has their own range of vocabulary even though we encounter other
ranges of vocabulary by communicating with other people. Vocabulary reflects
each person’s environment and personal history and attitude towards
their lives.
