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365

De Hoorn, Leuven, Belgium

2019

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

metal casing, custom tailored displays and electronics

abstract

365 days a year, each day one random word, 365 words a year. On the roof of a former brewery building 'De Hoorn' in Leuven's industrial harbour, and facing the city center, a 7-letter display is mounted. The choice of words is driven by a generative system randomly choosing one letter after the other but re-launching the query if the constituted string can’t be found in a Dutch or English dictionary. In this manner, there is only a word equal to a meaning shown each day on the top of the building: when ‘denotata’ (sense) and ‘data’ (semiosis) combine an auto-poetic machine is formed addressing the passer-by's interpretation and associations to read the urban context besides the daily routine.

credits

with special thanks to:
Michiel De Schryver, Lambda-max bvba, engineering
Walter Wathieu, technical assistance
Marnix Gybels, city of Leuven
Tom Crols, Michielson, cranes and transport

text

Hello,
The word of the day is:

EXEGESE

DATETIME : 2019/05/30, 00:01:03

t took 1h03 to find this word, longest search so far

history

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public artworks by the Belgian artstudio LAb[au], laboratory for art and urbanism, atr&language, art&architecture crossing conceptual art, kinetic art, digital art, konkrete

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