Leonardo da Vinci's Smile
A Random Generator by Adib Fricke
»I was fired because I think that art is actually quite
senseless.«
Created in 1989, the first version of »Leonardo da Vinci’s
Smile« could generate approx. 7 million non-related German
statements on the fine arts. The second version of the random
generator (1990–91) produced approx. 30 million German or
English comments, each non stop. »Leonardo’s Smile«
was exhibited as an installation
for two computers, and it was simulataneously made available
in a disk version for sentence generation at home.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Smile Demo version which displays approximately a thousand pre-generated
statements in random order (a Flash-plugin
is required)
