R. Prost
The Book of Babel
This piece was reformatted from digital book form for the purpose of Please Hold Magazine. Artist R. Prost begins the book with the following explanation:
This book is an electronic world tour, an algorithmic travelogue.
A passage from the Bible in English was enlisted as the protagonist for this voyage. Using the functionality of one of the leading search engines, this text was translated into another language. The result of this translation was then translated into a third language. This process of translation and re-translation was repeated until the virtual world was circumnavigaetd and the text was returned finally into English.
The record of these iterations is found in these pages.
R. P.
This book is an electronic world tour, an algorithmic travelogue.
A passage from the Bible in English was enlisted as the protagonist for this voyage. Using the functionality of one of the leading search engines, this text was translated into another language. The result of this translation was then translated into a third language. This process of translation and re-translation was repeated until the virtual world was circumnavigaetd and the text was returned finally into English.
The record of these iterations is found in these pages.
R. P.