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End of Recognition
Jim Andrews & Kirill Azernyy

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Short Story: Kirill Azernyy.  Images: Jim Andrews.

This represents a different approach to story, reading, and seeing. The text is End of Recognition, my Russian poet friend Kirill Azerny’s first story in English. I imagine a battle against language–and story itself, in the writing. As though the surface of the text could barely contain the language bubbling up from below. Kirill suggested I feed End of Recognition to my graphic synthesizer Aleph Null. Like an audio synthesizer, Aleph Null samples from images and/or texts, and creates stills and animations from sampled parts of the images/texts.

There are three parts to this piece, then: the beginning is Kirill’s text End of Recognition; the middle part is the never-the-same-twice Aleph Null chewing on the text; the end is the slideshow of selected screenshots of Aleph Null chewing on End of Recognition.

Read End of Recognition by Kirill Azernyy →

Aleph Null chewing on End of Recognition →

Selected images from End of Recognition →

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Kirill Timurovich Azernyy was born in 1990 in USSR, Sverdlovsk. Has been writing fiction since 2005; his stories and short stories have been published in literary magazines in Russia (“Novyi Mir”, “Ural”, “Vesch”, “Guideon”, etc.) and abroad (“Gone Lawn”, “Flatbush Review”, “Offcourse Literary Journal”, etc.). A story has been long-listed for the Debut award (2015). Participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (2015). Teacher of English. Student (Postgraduate) of Philosophical Department of Ural Federal University. Lives in Russia, Yekaterinburg.

Jim Andrews is a net artist, poet, programmer, visual and audio artist, mathematician and essayist. He has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. He completed a degree in English and Mathematics at the U of Victoria in Canada in 1983. He then produced a literary radio show called Fine Lines and, later, ?FRAME? for six years that he distributed each week to 15 campus/community stations in Canada. He has been writing Aleph Null since 2011. He lives in Metrotown in Vancouver with his wife.