THE GENERATOR: ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET THE NARRATOR: GOOGLE.COM THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS: THE FLUX

We have grown used to thinking that our hyper-industrialized societies are exclusively visual. It appears, however, that the advent of the internet has actually allowed text to dominate the image. Indeed, search engines, the main means of access to data, are essentially textual. Put simply, pictures do not exist on a numeric support unless they bear a title, the criteria of the images classification. It is exclusively thanks to titles, or text, that we can find pictures.

This domination feeds into the complex and historically stratified relation between these two schemes of thought. There has always been an interlace, or if you will, a problem, a question, a no man's land between the alpha-numeric and the iconographic.

How can we use this domination against itself? Is it possible to create a narration between text and images? Can we rethink the relation between pictures and text according to new modes?

"In the Picture of the Text" is a generator that indefinitely produces a textual fiction, inspired by the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet, "inventor" of the nouveau roman. Some words of this fiction are sent to a search engine that displays pictures. Does this produce an exact translation? Is there a narrative congruence between the generated text and these pictures that come from the cybernetic flux? What story is told by this automatic and abnormal translation?