The Unfolded Folded

This volume investigates the machine learning algorithm of Google Translate. The source text consists of single phonemes or words that are incrementally repeated in the translate window. The translation of repeated Thai words with meaning such as "karma karma karma karma" is a complex web of words that allude meaning and hint at the poetic.

5 x 0.2 x 7.5 inches
76 pages

This volume is part of the Automatic Automatic Writing Series of Unknown Unknowns. The series imagines automatic writing in the traditional sense with the added layer of algorithmic mediation such as auto-correct, translation and/or grammar suggestion.