Eidolon was a group of visual artists and computer programmers active between 1999 and 2004. Eidolon was comprised of Sean Whalen and Paul Tulipana. The works of Eidolon have been commissioned and exhibited by online and physical galleries world-wide, and are collected at various online art preservation institutions.
The Video Haiku Engine (2003)
The Video Haiku Engine is a series of transformations, manipulating inputted text data, in the form of a user-inputted haiku, into video positioning data. The process emulates a programming language compiler, with lexer and parser functions. The inputted tokens are matched against pre-built arrays of tokens, a series of rules determined stemming from the lingual interpretations of categories like 'real' and 'fake', 'high' and 'low' (in Bataille's sense), etc. Matching tokens manipulate values which become placement data for quicktime movies. The videos, created by Colorado-based network artist Rick Silva (Cuechamp), are then placed on the 'grid' of a HTML page via Cascading Style Sheets.
QuickTime plugin from Apple required.
