The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine that tells an endless story built up from an online database of patents. The machine translates words of a secret story into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.
New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.
More information on the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus can be found here.
