Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian new media artist and current PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. Baden also holds masters degrees from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and the Université Paris VIII, France. His work has been widely published and exhibited, both locally and internationally, and is held in numerous private collections.
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Lingua Franca — Baden Pailthorpe
Dates:
Wed Jan 11, 2012 18:00 - Sat Jan 28, 2012
Location:
Sydney,
Australia
Fresh off the back of 18 months in Paris, Baden Pailthorpe’s new series Lingua Franca explores language, translation and misunderstanding through a variety of new media artworks. The centrepiece of the exhibition is Eighty-Four Doors, a limited edition, experimental translation of Orwell’s 1984 using every language on Google Translate. This extended process of linguistic remixing is mapped through a data visualisation produced in collaboration with London-based designer Stefanie Posavec www.itsbeenreal.co.uk. Also revisited by Baden Pailthorpe is the cinematic adaptation of 1984, re-edited according to the mysterious, algorithmic and sometimes poetic logic of Google Translate. Catalogue essays written by artist and writer Lily Hibberd http://lilyhibberd.com/ and media theorist Jussi Parikka http://jussiparikka.net/.
@EightyFourDoors
Firstdraft Gallery, Jan 11th - Jan 29th, 2012.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
@EightyFourDoors
Firstdraft Gallery, Jan 11th - Jan 29th, 2012.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
