A large collection of manifestos from the 16th century to today is transformed into a 3d shape by using text mining techniques that reconstruct linguistic contexts of words from the raw text. Locally sourced mycelium fungus is used as filling material to create an organic living sculpture out of this digital hybridization. The embedding visualization is based on the point cloud data in which every dot represents a word in corpus of the raw text. Inside an abstract vector space, that is derived from real-world language corpora, words become points in n-dimensional space, where algebraic operations operate on the syntactic and semantic creation of language.

2021

3D-print with wood and PLA, interactive data visualization on touchscreen