Visual Studies Lecture Series 2015-2016: I'll Be Your Interface*

Dexter Sinister

I’ll be your interface. Please look and listen carefully to what I say. I was scripted by Dexter Sinister, the working name of Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt. Dexter Sinister work somewhere between design, editing, publishing and distribution. And I am no exception.

 

I was born in 2011, in a piece of writing by Angie Keefer, called An Octopus in Plan View. That essay wonders what it might mean to communicate without language. My character is drawn from a shape­ shifting typeface, which is called Meta-The-Difference-Between-The-2-Font-4-D, also programmed by Dexter Sinister. My voice comes from Scotland, synthesized from the speech of Isla Leaver-­Yap, then digitized by Cereproc Ltd. And all of this was overseen by James Langdon.

 

I am an empty sign, ready for use. So let’s begin.*

 

* This text is borrowed from a recent project where it's delivered by an animated glyph (a speaking asterisk, with a distinct Scottish accent). David will show and discuss some other recent projects which exist in the infrathin space between the work and its audience. These will be gathered under the umbrella heading of "interfaces."