Paris Hilton Wins by a Country Mile, 2014found internet text, book, 8 ½” h x 11” w, commercially printed, unlimited edition
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This book was created while participating in a workshop at the Power Plant, Toronto, CA, led by Kenneth Goldsmith. The workshop was called Uncreative Writing. Goldsmith asked participants to find something on the internet and then translate it into a different form. I found two interview transcripts, one with Paris Hilton interviewed by Larry King and one with Jacques Derrida interviewed by Michel Rosenfeld. The portions of the interviews I chose were one page long and of equal length. I then started to translate the text using Google Translate. I subsequently translated each iteration through the next language through all 104 languages Google provides. In the end, I translated the text back into English. Paris Hilton’s text was far more intact than Jacques Derrida’s—she won by a country mile.
Paris Hilton Wins by a Country Mile, 2014found internet text, book, 8 ½” h x 11” w, commercially printed, unlimited edition
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This book was created while participating in a workshop at the Power Plant, Toronto, CA, led by Kenneth Goldsmith. The workshop was called Uncreative Writing. Goldsmith asked participants to find something on the internet and then translate it into a different form. I found two interview transcripts, one with Paris Hilton interviewed by Larry King and one with Jacques Derrida interviewed by Michel Rosenfeld. The portions of the interviews I chose were one page long and of equal length. I then started to translate the text using Google Translate. I subsequently translated each iteration through the next language through all 104 languages Google provides. In the end, I translated the text back into English. Paris Hilton’s text was far more intact than Jacques Derrida’s—she won by a country mile.