Chatterbox is a series of short episodes using found footage from the Prelinger Archives and using the repetitiveness of language to create a theater of the absurd video installation. Here are three for your viewing pleasure - Not all men are alike, followed by So Stupid, then Beautiful When Mad.

It uses the repetitveness in television, in communication and in the routines of everyday life, questioning what meaning, if any, exists, and how it is affected by context. At the same time, these repetitions also create a rhythm and sense in and of themselves.

It is included in the exhibition Adding Insult to Imagery? Artistic Responses to Censorship and Mass Media, curated by Robert Sweeny at the Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, January 16-February 17th, travelling to Central Missouri State University in September 2006.

The idea stems from Eugene Ionesco's plays and Noam Chomsky's use of the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to explain that something could have a structure that is understood even if it is semantically nonsense. The claim that the sentence has no semantical meaning was subsequently challenged, but surrealists, Dadaists and absurdists, not to mention psychoanalysts the world over have known this for a long time. We at artafterscience are constantly asking how much meaning or lack thereof is in any sentence, how much meaning is a result of our own projections, and whether colorful new ideas are any more meaningful than colorless green ones.

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