Pablo Canillas

<<Secondary effects caused by improper use of the man by the machine>> is an allegory of the perpetuation of power by faith and determination rather than by willing and rational acceptance. For this performance, a classic baroque painting of a saint is prepared as a computer text; composing in an image by relying on the optical density of letters when disposed in groups. A speech synthesis device dictates the text at human pace, while the scribe-performer diligently transcribes letter by letter what he hears on ink and paper. During this enduring task of writing, the scribe-performer is able to perpetuate the painting without any notion of light and volume, but just by its well trained ability of fixating meaningless spoken letters into glyphs.

The performance-transcription ends eventually with a manuscript as an image of the original saint's portrait.

Pablo Canillas is a NYC based Spanish artist.

http://pablo.dislodged.org