»Passage Sets - One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue« 
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© Bill Seaman
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Bill Seaman >
»Passage Sets - One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue«, 1995 - 1995
Co-Workers & Funding:
commissioned by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arthttps://vimeo.com/showcase/7345843
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Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue (1995) is an interactive installation that functions as an elaborate navigable audio/visual poem. Seaman worked with Chris Ziegler as the programmer for this work. Three projections comprise the installation, where one video and two data projections are presented as a triptych. The central projection enables the participant to navigate through a 150-image panorama with text superimposed over the image. The participant can navigate spatially by moving over the surface of the images - move left, right, up and down through an image grid presented on the central screen. Each image is tied to a related section of video, music and text that can be triggered (presented on the right hand screen). This video presents a spoken version of the same text that is scattered over the surface of the image. The user of the system can also select words and/or phrases from the image which lead them to a poem generator. All of the language from the work is included in four scrolling lists that enable the participant to build new poems or generate random selections. Each of these selections can be used to navigate back to the context of the panorama that they are drawn from. The user can explore meaning in relation to a shifting contexts, thus both emergent meaning as well as the experiential observation of meaning alteration is observed in the work. A third screen shows the computer constantly generating new poems lines, drawing from a related poem generator list to the one presented center screen. A German Version of the work has been authored entitled Passagen Kombinationen / Man Manövriert Drehungen auf der Zungenspitze (1996). The work is in the permanent collection of the Medien Museum, ZKM, Karlesruhe, Germany.
(Bill Seaman)
Bill Seaman 29-09-2020
Passage Sets /
One
Pulls Pivots
At The Tip
Of The Tongue
Seaman
July 2 1994
some fix ups
Oct 4
passage sets…
one pulls
pivots
at the tip
of the tongue
navigational
vehicles of emotion
entering the voice
disturbed air
occupancy of language
within this
meta-net
physical
in one place
accessing
another
the sensual generator
of thought
engines…
signals
the machine
spawns
titles
oscillation engines
talk to
the memory of
sliding fields
tactile translations
motion across
the space
of a thought
precision
slippage
loaded
levelled
drift
voyeur
enter
the interior
of a
gesture
within the
desire set
motioning in
the net of nets
the meta-net
vehicle of tongue
tender transcription
exchange
lines
of force
and retreat
the handling
tongue
is a
sexual
stimulant
ephemeral
gathering
state
building
of emotives
zones of eroticism
triggering timbased
encryption sets
hand
gestures
sexual
slow seeking
release
dance
precision
inorganic
body
for each
instance
the opposite
subtle
yet
substantial
membrane of
energy
the body prone
thresholds
navigational
touch
triggers
gathering
greater than
the sum
of its parts
meta-machine
mapping thought
a resonance in the memory theatre
construction
passage sets
(eyes)
listening
location sensitive
manoeuvring
through the
erotic branches
close encryption calls
psycho acoustic
flicker of flames…
pulse projection
map nav sets
surface of skin
skin of drums
drums of motors
engines of
enlightenment
environment
of salt
building
fluid
crystalline
navigators
response
situation maps
memory of touch
constructions
fabrications...
reality set
shifters
web mode
vicinities
observing the
science of
emotion
swivel
memory
theatre
labyrinth
emblems
and
architectural attributes
reflection
emblems
and
architectural attributes
with
reflex
reflection
rotate
soft
erobotic
agent
spokes
exchange
engines
encrypted
mnemonics
infra-red
inferred
still lives
the voyeur of light
physical
memory
impression
(touched)
hands
scan
touch
metal
roof
skin
surface
rain
rain
of information
available
colour
exhaustion
infinite information
collapse…
nature
shifting
frames
body
soft crash
discarded
instance
implosion
surface
soft
skin
code
architecture
blood
amber
embers
heighten
machine
expression
toward
emotion
fabricating
emblems of
transgression
building
travel
flows
melody of
trajectories
(her voice)
(his voice)
gestures
vending
and setting
sound
traps
furniture music
rearrangements
skin
supple
voice
informatics
underground railroad
trigger set release
agent collisions
synchronise
bio mechanics
scent
encase
essence
sent
arching
door or entrance
arched spine
angular rooms
austere
machine breathing
sung choir of whispers
blossom of thought
transfer
re-embody
pearls
pistil and stamen
soft encoders
passion is elsewhere existing
non space
empty space
void traversal
light space
addressing numerics
table of melancholy
refinement
blue voice of AI
incidental whirr
accumulation of light
drones
time-honoured
time honed
diffusion
rearrangements
folding
across
and within
the volume
of light
stung
sung
motor
string
pitch
vibration
understanding
erobotic
stimulus
accumulation of light drones
time honoured time honed
light line
swivel
channels
long neck…
articulated
memory
mouth
warmly open
code of translation
transference aggregate
the stolen
voice ammo
scatters
lost
across the net
surface of the senses
abstract
mouth
exchange
breathing
rhythmic
oxygen
touch
channel
alternates
continuous pulse
interval of memory
limits of sensation
finger tip
fabrications
options
driving
information
mnemonic
pneumatic
muscle
sensual
pressure
vehicles
light walls
of skin
the skin
of desire
entangled
horizon
bridged
erobotic
expanses
glass
whispers
saliva
mingles
30's movie
language
image
sample
temperature percussion
slide return
hose
coil
flower
internal longing
external
extend
outermost
code driven
fluid
Buddha
sound
breathing
template of
blue
silences
articulation
multi voice
unlock
interlock
entrance
outlet
light lines
human
touch
encryption
memory
of code
thought
housings
clench and rise
release
resulting
relay
sounding
interior
observation
location
shifts
breathing
still
genre
gender select
rendezvous
remove
remote
the sound is bathing
breathing
beating blue
reciprocity
of the gaze rhythms
advance
taste of
triggered
salt
exchange action
thoughts
touched
through
physical force
building
address
points synchronised
moving algorithmic autopsy
track forensic auto type
cipher set disguised
the body of information
watching the jump appliance crash
close encryption call
transfer of desire
the cell
the shell
thought
of moist
wet space
oxygen
and silence
relays
exhibit
purchase
on the code
touch of the tip encased
encoded
attention to
emblematic release
filters
scaring
the digital shots
with intention
transgression
code
within a code
an abstract signal forwarded
room of
reverie
poison acid hackers dance
across the
crosshair
address
satellite
light line
transfer
oblique
simple function pivotal meaning
onanistic
loaded
code of codes
device heightened lone motioning
micro search glider
the transfer of desire
the cipher lies elsewhere (intention)
gestures
singing
almost audible
above the low
light level
the lines
of perception form
pure focus
touch of the hand
soft transmission blue digital
distance
mapping the body within an illusion
a truth
to be entered
(forged)
body encryption
planes parallel
signal sets
signal sites
read
with intention
reconstruction sleep
escape is
a shadow
of illusion
a silhouette
of memory
a moment to heighten
the senses
removed
remote
the exchange builds a longing
rest within the architecture
of the
synapse
frame
architecture of impermanence
literary
white glove
hack
physical passage
passage sets
standing
darkness
dead trees
suspend a tree
branches of light
introspective
skew thoughts
prisons
of delicate
luminosity
biological
lantern words...
breathings
tumble
circumspect
just beneath
the surface
the nude glides
light passing
petals and
vessels
rusted
inverted
colour of time
angle of uncertainty
Ada's loves
touch breathing
leaving
instinct intact
maps of code
elaborate strategies for saying nothing
simple ways to say everything
the identities
of shift
invoke
the agent
of agents
oscillation engines
talk to the memory of sliding fields
tactile translations
motion across
the space of a thought
energies inform the science
of emotion
within this
set of sets
Bill Seaman: Passage Sets - One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue, 29-09-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art Passage Sets /
One
Pulls Pivots
At The Tip
Of The Tongue
Seaman
July 2 1994
some fix ups
Oct 4
passage sets…
one pulls
pivots
at the tip
of the tongue
navigational
vehicles of emotion
entering the voice
disturbed air
occupancy of language
within this
meta-net
physical
in one place
accessing
another
the sensual generator
of thought
engines…
signals
the machine
spawns
titles
oscillation engines
talk to
the memory of
sliding fields
tactile translations
motion across
the space
of a thought
precision
slippage
loaded
levelled
drift
voyeur
enter
the interior
of a
gesture
within the
desire set
motioning in
the net of nets
the meta-net
vehicle of tongue
tender transcription
exchange
lines
of force
and retreat
the handling
tongue
is a
sexual
stimulant
ephemeral
gathering
state
building
of emotives
zones of eroticism
triggering timbased
encryption sets
hand
gestures
sexual
slow seeking
release
dance
precision
inorganic
body
for each
instance
the opposite
subtle
yet
substantial
membrane of
energy
the body prone
thresholds
navigational
touch
triggers
gathering
greater than
the sum
of its parts
meta-machine
mapping thought
a resonance in the memory theatre
construction
passage sets
(eyes)
listening
location sensitive
manoeuvring
through the
erotic branches
close encryption calls
psycho acoustic
flicker of flames…
pulse projection
map nav sets
surface of skin
skin of drums
drums of motors
engines of
enlightenment
environment
of salt
building
fluid
crystalline
navigators
response
situation maps
memory of touch
constructions
fabrications...
reality set
shifters
web mode
vicinities
observing the
science of
emotion
swivel
memory
theatre
labyrinth
emblems
and
architectural attributes
reflection
emblems
and
architectural attributes
with
reflex
reflection
rotate
soft
erobotic
agent
spokes
exchange
engines
encrypted
mnemonics
infra-red
inferred
still lives
the voyeur of light
physical
memory
impression
(touched)
hands
scan
touch
metal
roof
skin
surface
rain
rain
of information
available
colour
exhaustion
infinite information
collapse…
nature
shifting
frames
body
soft crash
discarded
instance
implosion
surface
soft
skin
code
architecture
blood
amber
embers
heighten
machine
expression
toward
emotion
fabricating
emblems of
transgression
building
travel
flows
melody of
trajectories
(her voice)
(his voice)
gestures
vending
and setting
sound
traps
furniture music
rearrangements
skin
supple
voice
informatics
underground railroad
trigger set release
agent collisions
synchronise
bio mechanics
scent
encase
essence
sent
arching
door or entrance
arched spine
angular rooms
austere
machine breathing
sung choir of whispers
blossom of thought
transfer
re-embody
pearls
pistil and stamen
soft encoders
passion is elsewhere existing
non space
empty space
void traversal
light space
addressing numerics
table of melancholy
refinement
blue voice of AI
incidental whirr
accumulation of light
drones
time-honoured
time honed
diffusion
rearrangements
folding
across
and within
the volume
of light
stung
sung
motor
string
pitch
vibration
understanding
erobotic
stimulus
accumulation of light drones
time honoured time honed
light line
swivel
channels
long neck…
articulated
memory
mouth
warmly open
code of translation
transference aggregate
the stolen
voice ammo
scatters
lost
across the net
surface of the senses
abstract
mouth
exchange
breathing
rhythmic
oxygen
touch
channel
alternates
continuous pulse
interval of memory
limits of sensation
finger tip
fabrications
options
driving
information
mnemonic
pneumatic
muscle
sensual
pressure
vehicles
light walls
of skin
the skin
of desire
entangled
horizon
bridged
erobotic
expanses
glass
whispers
saliva
mingles
30's movie
language
image
sample
temperature percussion
slide return
hose
coil
flower
internal longing
external
extend
outermost
code driven
fluid
Buddha
sound
breathing
template of
blue
silences
articulation
multi voice
unlock
interlock
entrance
outlet
light lines
human
touch
encryption
memory
of code
thought
housings
clench and rise
release
resulting
relay
sounding
interior
observation
location
shifts
breathing
still
genre
gender select
rendezvous
remove
remote
the sound is bathing
breathing
beating blue
reciprocity
of the gaze rhythms
advance
taste of
triggered
salt
exchange action
thoughts
touched
through
physical force
building
address
points synchronised
moving algorithmic autopsy
track forensic auto type
cipher set disguised
the body of information
watching the jump appliance crash
close encryption call
transfer of desire
the cell
the shell
thought
of moist
wet space
oxygen
and silence
relays
exhibit
purchase
on the code
touch of the tip encased
encoded
attention to
emblematic release
filters
scaring
the digital shots
with intention
transgression
code
within a code
an abstract signal forwarded
room of
reverie
poison acid hackers dance
across the
crosshair
address
satellite
light line
transfer
oblique
simple function pivotal meaning
onanistic
loaded
code of codes
device heightened lone motioning
micro search glider
the transfer of desire
the cipher lies elsewhere (intention)
gestures
singing
almost audible
above the low
light level
the lines
of perception form
pure focus
touch of the hand
soft transmission blue digital
distance
mapping the body within an illusion
a truth
to be entered
(forged)
body encryption
planes parallel
signal sets
signal sites
read
with intention
reconstruction sleep
escape is
a shadow
of illusion
a silhouette
of memory
a moment to heighten
the senses
removed
remote
the exchange builds a longing
rest within the architecture
of the
synapse
frame
architecture of impermanence
literary
white glove
hack
physical passage
passage sets
standing
darkness
dead trees
suspend a tree
branches of light
introspective
skew thoughts
prisons
of delicate
luminosity
biological
lantern words...
breathings
tumble
circumspect
just beneath
the surface
the nude glides
light passing
petals and
vessels
rusted
inverted
colour of time
angle of uncertainty
Ada's loves
touch breathing
leaving
instinct intact
maps of code
elaborate strategies for saying nothing
simple ways to say everything
the identities
of shift
invoke
the agent
of agents
oscillation engines
talk to the memory of sliding fields
tactile translations
motion across
the space of a thought
energies inform the science
of emotion
within this
set of sets
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