ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About
ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About
2021
“St. Emi” consists of a video placed within a triptych made from black walnut. Beside the video, I present the automatically generated subtitles that YouTube produced from the audio track. The video itself shows the rapper Eminem performing an eight-minute loop of randomly generated letters, a nonsensical text spoken in Eminem’s voice through speech-synthesis. This audio is then lip-synced to the image using an early version of the Wav2Lip technology.
Images from the group exhibition “Snúrusúpa” in Reykjavík City Hall in 2022.