Language. 2007. Vinyl on wall and two channel video installation. Edition of 5 + AP.

Definition of Language from wikipedia.com translated by a computer from english to Portuguese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Dutch and back to English. As the curator Kóan Jeff Baysa wrote: The most illustrative example of transliteration is the common online exercise of computerized translating through successive languages. Mexico City artist Emilio Chapela Pérez piece, language, is an example of a standard English definition of the word "language" processed through succesive non-English translations, then back into English, but ends in a mutated nonsensical sequence of words.

Extraje una definición de lenguage de wikipedia.com para traducirla utilizando una computadora, del Inglés al Portugués, al Alemán, al Japonés, al Español, al Ruso, al Holandés y finalmente de regreso al Inglés. El resultado es una frase sin sentido donde el significado original queda completamente destruido.

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This text illustrates the process of translation and transformation for each language. However, it is not part of the piece.

Este texto ilustra el proceso de traducción y transformación para cada lenguaje, pero no forma parte de la pieza.

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