This project is inspired by Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel "Project for a Revolution in New York" (1974) and by the events of 9.11. It is a textual generator which searches on the Internet in real time for pictures and sounds which correspond to the afforded words. The translation and the association of these different media produce a new narrative that is shaped by the memory and the flux of cyberspace. The ultimate narration is unpredictable and leads to the production of an unique movie.

It is cliche to think that our hyper-industrialized societies are exclusively visual, because with Internet the text dominates the picture. To exist physically on a numeric media every picture must have a name that is the criteria of its indexing. Search engines, which provide the main access to this numeric data, are essentially textual.

This privileging of language questions the complex and historically stratified relation between these two regimes of thought. There was always a void, or if you will, a problem, a question, or no man's land between the alpha-numeric and the iconographic. The question today is not how to produce new pictures, but how to find the pre-existing picture within the available stock.

This project is a part of Sampling, http://incident.net/works/sampling/