William Shakespeare Plays

IDEA

(09/22)

All of Shakespeare's plays are abstracted via a set of rules inherent in the work. The spoken text is abstracted in each case. The text used for abstraction is that of one person (or a chorus) speaking in the play before another person speaks, the scene ends, or a scene instruction interrupts the spoken text.

In the set of rules, the abstractions refer to the letters of the name William Shakespeare and to the letters of the work and the speaker.

The individual abstractions of the sentences/paragraphs/monologues are combined into a graphic work which is printed.

The unabstracted, but rule-based coloured texts are combined into a film that enables one to read the entire individual work on viewing.

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TASKS

(09/22)

• Definition of the set of rules
• Selection of the text source
• Definition of the size of the abstraction
• Order of editing

CONCEPT

(02/23)

For the artwork, all of William Shakespeare's plays are abstracted in the order in which they were written1 .

Each play becomes a graphic work.

Each graphic work consists of a rule-based number of individual panels formed from the text of the play. Abstracted is every single spoken part of a performer until the next performer speaks. The Act- and Scene-Numbers are part of the following performers text-block.

Abstracted is the text including scene directions, act, scene numbering, role names.

Each panel consists of a coloured background and the text in the foreground.

Each work has one of the basic colours of the RGB colour space defined as the background, which results from the relation of the letters of the work title and the letters of the name "William Shakespeare". The brightness of this is adjusted by the spoken text, based on rules.

The foreground colour is rule-based and results from the spoken text.

The abstraction is done by "grinding" over the entire text of the panel, in the dimensions of the text, including the non-spoken components of the text (speaker's name, scene instructions, numbering). Each text block ends with the interrupted spoken text.

RULEBOOK

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REALISATTION

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