Nicholas Kove | Basic English [2007-08]
'Basic English’ uses Charles K. Ogden’s 850 word Basic English Vocabulary to communicate through the submission of hourly automated requests, similar to those of a computer virus or spyware application.
The responses, found paragraphs devoid of their original context, are re-purposed and publicly broadcast at http://twitter.com/kove
Nicholas Kove was born in Uppsala, Sweden in the early 1970s and started his computing career on an Apple II in 1984.
His current work balances between the disciplines of programming and fine art; through an imaginative use of mathematics and linguistics his work primarily challenges two independent principles: the concept of post-mechanical reproduction, and the nature of the supposedly random.