August 16-September 2.  I am wordle.

In “I am wordle,” Johanna Drucker substitues hand-drawn, typographic rendering of randomly captured language (from news, radio, street signs, overheard conversation and other sources in the immediate environment) for the computational processing used by the text visualization software to create “word clouds.” Her piece poses an ironic critique of the notion of observer independent processing, on the one hand, but also suggests that the linguistic “self” is constituted as a subject of ambient language streams that pass through us.

Johanna Drucker is an artist and writer who is known for her experimental typographic books and her critical writings on visual poetry, typographic history, and digital aesthetics. She teaches in the Information Studies Department at UCLA.