Crack-Up

"Encore Bruxelles", group show / Brussels, 1997

Mark1

Video, 6'39

Ironically, Alec De Busschère made this videotape as the result of an absurd search for all the possible combinations of the letters of his name.

These letter combinations produce 9,975,000 different words entered into a database. This database is then transcribed into a video, at a rate of 25 words per second, producing a total of 110 hours and 48 minutes of images. Following the same logic, the soundtrack of the video is produced by 5 artificial voices from a software program that recite these unreadable words.

Crack-up alecdebusschère was created from a part of this database, at the rate of one word every 1000 words, placed in alphabetical order. The result of this synthesis is a video of 6 minutes and 39 seconds running in a loop, intended to be presented on a monitor installed in the manner of information screens that can be found in public spaces.

Mark2