Chuya Ikeda

I chosed a poem, "A season in hell", written by French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). I translate the poem by Google translation service; machine translation. The method is after translation from French into English, the transaction article is tranlated again from English into Spanish. I then continue. The order is ; French, E,glish, Spanish. Portuguessen Japanese, Kerean, Chinese, Arabic, Italian and German.
This method is like a "telephone game". I repeated the translation telephone game 10 times;
The translation of the poem turned out to produce a very similar result using this technique.

After getting the results, I traced all similar words over the differet languages. The presentation of the trace gives a detail of the movement of a word. For instance, the position of the word or the part of speech sometimes, has utterly changed after translation, showing the meaning has changed through translation.


I then applied a picture code. I collected a picture from each Google image site by searching all words which come from previous step ; "the translation telephone game". After that I secured the pictures with pins in the same position.

Chiua Ikeda 2007