Flocking souls: Text/image experiment

Owner: 
MoSS
Tagged with: 
Text/image experiment (2008)
Format: 
Object
Date of Creation: 
2008
Aquired: 
20080712
Author or artist: 
Florian Schneider
Country of origin: 
Germany
Current status: 
On display

The 9 inch screen shows an experiment that has been conducted in the museum recently:

Flocking souls is a text that has been converted into PNG image format, opened again in a txt editor. Then the binary code of the image was pasted as text into the effect tool of a video editing software. It appears as scroll text, but only as long as the computer -- an eight-core processor machine with more than 20 GHz and 8 Gigabyte RAM was able to render it. At a certain point it collapses all the thousands of remaining characters that have not been rendered yet merge onto one.