A More Subtle Perplex
Supported by National Endowment for the Arts
A More Subtle Perplex is an experiment in quasi-linguistic formalism, in gibberish. Borrowing and inverting techniques from computer science and analytic linguistics, it blindly strives to produce the outer appearance of language – to be all form and no content. The Perplex produces synthetic languages, or at least their syntactic forms, by writing letters to you. The production of the text and the production of a given language are interdependent.
Like most of Dean’s work, this is a serious joke. A lonely robot, desperately seeking to communicate in an endless series of idiolects, or a play on the abstract aesthetics of non-representational painting for a conceptual artist. And, like most of his work, it is a point on a line, or a member of a set — these examples are not the first, nor will they be the last iterations of the project to make excellent gibberish.
TAXONOMY
Artificial Intelligence | Conceptual | Github | Language | Open Source | Robotic | Synthetic
REQUIREMENTS
You can browse the texts online, and The Perplex is an open source project: you can fork it at Github.