Wayne Clements (GB)
"Love2" installation
love2 is an open source simulation of an emulation. This program simulates the Manchester Mark 1 computer's Loveletters (the first computer generated text) which in turn is the subject of an emulation written by the artist David Link. Link's program emulates the program written originally by Christopher Strachey in 1952.
love2 is a reverse engineering job created by repeatedly rerunning Link's Loveletters to obtain the text strings and all the variant sentence structures. These were then programmed in Perl. love2 uses a 'template structure', also known as a 'slot' or 'substitution' system. It then applies randomising techniques to create its variant texts.
Wayne Clements is a visual artist and a writer. His artworks have been shown in many festivals and exhibitions of electronic art. un_wiki received the Award of Distinction, Net Vision, Prix Ars Electronica (2006), and was shown in Connecting Worlds, ICC Gallery Tokyo (2006), in a specially commissioned Japanese language version. His artworks have been shown recently in Madrid, Barcelona, and Athens; notably also in Valencia where logo_wiki was part of the curated presentation Antisocial Notworking.
He completed a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2005) which investigated the relationship between art and computers.
