2002

8:18 mins (looped)

Audio: manipulated archive speech

Video (diptych): manipulated archive video, with text animation, 8:30 mins (looped, left); double-exposure manipulated archive video with artist footage, 0:53 mins (looped, right)

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms (1921-2008) recites Gertrude Stein’s love poem, “A Wife Has a Cow”

Developed using speech synthesis technology at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton