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Two Works, One Man, One Quaintly Revitalized District
Unfathomably prolific writer, artist and National keeper of memories Douglas Coupland has a new show opening at Monte Clark tonight. He’ll be presenting two works, I Like The Future and the Future Likes Me, and Lost and Gained in Translation. In the former he imagines life in 3005, and in the latter, he explores “the new meaning of translation in a world of file sharing, search engine translations, and endless digital replication of text-based work.” This last one has us particularly intrigued, given that we spend much of our day feeding text through internet translators and laughing at the results. Coupland doesn’t laugh, he appreciates the beauty, and says this translation yields ‘a chilling reductive haiku of the initial text.’ Okay, but we’d call them obtuse limericks before reductive haiku.
Checking back on D. Coupland’s fluidly updated site, we also note the impending publication of jPOD. Here’s hoping it comes with headphones, and a ‘mostly recently played’ option.