Pam Quinto
Double double, Moore in trouble | Tin-aw Gallery
3 works I made in response to the prompt of Moore's law: how computer technology shrinks every 18-24 months, compacting more power into smaller and smaller devices, my responses were observations on the shrinkage of language and literature (poetry) as a result of these technological innovations. In The Five Senses, Serres speaks of "the dying of the word," exemplified in the works as data taking over the place of language, information and algorithms taking the place of the spoken and written word.
1: "Fast Poetry" - Chocnuts covered with poetry by Lang Leav, Michael Faudet, and Rupi Kaur (free for the audience to take) The work speaks of the speed and immediacy of consumption in social media (be it text, imagery, information), this proliferation of instagrammable poetry. This is the only documentation I have of Fast Poetry, a photo of a small photo of it. By the time I got to the opening, the jar was already emptied. I actually don't mind that that happened, it seems to have made the point of the work more.
2: "The Most Upsetting Letter in the Alphabet"
3: "I have kwento" - I asked people to submit a cheeky story told through emojis, and picked one to transpose onto the slab. It's a look a how we've somehow reverted back to glyphs as a form of communication.