BLOOMSDAY
computer generated video, 2014
24 hours


Bloomsday is a video generated in real time by a computer. The video shows the text of the novel “Ulysses” by James Joyce, whose plot depicts the course of an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom, the main character. Each word of the book is projected separately generating a sequence that takes 24 hours to be played completely. The book has 265,492 words; each one appears on the screen for 0.325433 seconds.



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