Completed Painting: 'Das Schloss 2 [motion.flag.pages.]'

'Das Schloss 2 [motion.flag.pages.]', Acrylics & Paper Collage on Panel,
600 mm x 200mm, 2023

[Reconfigured Translation]

A Brief Primer:

• The world is a sphere.

• You cannot suggest changes.

• Location cannot be saved.

• We can refer to any point on the Earth's surface with two coordinates - longitude and latitude.

• Long/Lat = numbers. They can be specific or vague, as needed.

• I hate numbers - people can't remember long strings of numbers and it's hard to read them out loud.

• Numbers are (mostly) culturally neutral. There are no words for it.

• Any list of words long enough can eventually be recombined into a potentially offensive sentence.

• Words found to be inappropriate are not inappropriate, because they are not intended for contextual writing.

• It concerns the geography: the geography of our planet - as opposed to what is happening this week, this year, this century, and so on.

This is a classic computer science problem. The algorithm used to generate the words is proprietary. You can't see it. You cannot determine your location. Do you want to use more than 10,000 addresses?  - contact them for pricing! (If people want it, fine, but it's not economically sustainable). Open-source products are fine in theory, but capitalist economies can't always run on open source. If you want permission, you'll have to agree to some pretty lengthy terms (and understand their privacy policy). Have one person read it, then have another person listen to it and type it into another system.

I don't know how they intend to bind the successor organisation. There is no way to prevent countries that don't translate between languages, ​​or prefer a different system, from developing a system without asking someone to do the work for free. Should I expect Tesco to give me the goods? They do not publish their word lists or the mappings between them. They take a paternalistic stance when making lists (they know best). Make sure you don't infringe on their patents. I fully accept the arguments about precision and flexibility - they are simply used as words to codify a place.

I've never used longitude/latitude to determine where to meet people. You have to let them analyse the places you are looking for. They don't say what licenses they will use. If they go bankrupt, there's no guarantee they'll be able to release this code legally - and they won't do it in time. I don't care about the exact words - nor do I think anyone should; they are here in a different context. They are not used as words in prose or poetry (too confusing for myriad brains). Here's the thing... If the person's phone has a data connection, the website can only send the geolocation back directly to native speakers.

Addendum:

In another moment of reverse-engineered trans_lation, the painting originally entitled 'The Castle 1 [vouch.speared.hooked]' (below), now becomes: 'Das Schloss 1 [motion.flag.pages]'.

'Das Schloss 1 [vouch.speared.hooked.]', 2022