Document:Q12150
From Rhizome Artbase
News from Home Screen was created shortly after my move to New York, in a period of loneliness and primarily screen-mediated intimacy. Chantal Akerman's 1977 film News from Home, where the filmmaker reads letters from her mother over long, static takes drawn from her own early days in New York, brought me great comfort during this time. As a homage, I trained a Markov chain to automatically generate letters from my mom, pairing them with Akerman's visuals—screen-captured in a desktop window—to generate an intimate and algorithmically-assisted reserve of loving digital dispatches.