Simon Morris I UK

/re-writing Freud/

artist: Simon Morris

creative technology: Christine Morris

In this new work, re-writing Freud the artist Simon Morris has worked with the creative technologist Christine Morris to re-write Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is fed into a computer programme (designed by Christine Morris). The programme randomly selects words, one at a time from Freud's text and begins to reconstruct the entire book, word by word, making a new book
with the same words.

A virus or process of contagion has been at work, intervening in Freud's original text, rupturing it and returning it to us in a new order. By subjecting Freud's words to a random re-distribution, meaning is turned into non-meaning and the spectator is put to work to make sense of the new poetic juxtapositions. The world of dreams is subject to the laws of the irrational and re-writing Freud gives the spectator the chance to view Freud's text in its primal state.

To view the work online:
http://www.informationasmaterial.com/freud/index.htm

*Exhibition Schedule*

16 March - 15 April 2005
An Art of Readers, curated by Yann Serandour
Art & Essai Gallery, The University of Rennes, France

19 July – 28 August
prog:ME
curated by Carlo Sansolo and Érika Fraenkel
1^st Festival of Media and Electronic Art
Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 September - 14 October 2005

The Sleeper Gallery
Edinburgh, Scotland
28 October - 28 November 2005
The University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

*information as material*

re-writing Freud is published by information as material. information as material publishes work by artists who utilise extant material.

As Douglas Huebler said in 1969: “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” This eco-sensitive model acknowledges that there is enough material in the world and by working with extant material – by selecting it and reframing it –the artist is able to generate new meaning and, in doing so, disrupt the existing order of things.

www.informationasmaterial.com

Simon Morris is an artist and lecturer. He has exhibited throughout the UK, North America and Europe. He has exhibited at Printed Matter Inc. in New York, Art Metropole in Toronto and The Freud Museum in London. He has received several grants from The British Council, Arts Council England and The Henry Moore Foundation. He has just completed a PhD in Fine Art Practice at The University of Leeds. All of his work can be viewed online at www.informationasmaterial.com
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