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EKphrasis

1. Device attributes

2. The Perfect Tongue

3. Inverse of perception

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ÉCFRASIS;

LANGUAGE ENCRYPTION.

This project compares the decryption systems of two different times and separate cultures, but which respond to parallel forms: the encryption processes of QR codes (Western world from the 20th century to the 21st century) and geometric Kufic (Islamic world from the 15th century onwards), which are part of the everyday cultural landscape of their temporal moments.

In both cases, I show how language is used to hide-reveal references that correspond to a concept of a superior universe, religious in one case, digital in the other; the religious theogony and the omnipresence of the technological cloud.

In both cases it is necessary to translate the signs, to decrypt with knowledge or machine technology.

Autora

Clara Carvajal

Fecha

2019

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