These three projects were part of my doctoral research in Visual and Digital Poetics, with an interest in the still unexplored genre of e-poetry.

These three projects were part of my doctoral research in Visual and Digital Poetics with an interest in the still unexplored genre of e-poetry.

Keith Watson selected them for the NODE exhibition.

'Vocaleyes' (Image on the left)
This is an audiovisual multimedia interactive piece that enables the user to create drawings and sound compositions. The audio background is created by the phonetic sounds of multiple languages such as english, mandarin and arabic in the form of musical notes. This piece incorporates research by John Tchalenko, Research Fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, which looks at cognitive ways for learning to draw. I am also interested in communicative processes using text-sound and image. For this piece, I used meaningless phonetic sounds as the basic elements used in speech to learn to speak, conceiving in this way both parts of the brain: the linguistic and the visual.

'Another Kind of Language'
With this piece I explore the area in-between the 'Semantic-Text, Image-Text and Phonetic-Text' using digital technology. It has been shown as an interactive installation where two computers projected the images on to the same screen in order to get a multi-layered image at the same time as a multi-layered soundscape of phonetic compositions.
By rolling the mouse over, the textual surface appears and disappears, revealing the text-image and sound. The user can go from one of the pieces to the others and interact with other users. Each layer is formed by the meaningless phonetic sounds of different languages.

'Birds Singing other Birds Songs'
From birds' sounds into language and back to birds' songs via the human voice with the knowledge of language. These birds are animated 'text birds' singing the sound of their own text while flying in the sky. The letters, which create their outlines, correspond to the transcribed sound made by each of the birds. The sound is produced by the human voice slightly manipulated in the computer. Nevertheless, the sound doesn't correspond to the visual representation of the real bird.