digital palimpsest, layering interpretations over an other’s voice
Uwemedimo and Oppenheimer, “History and Histrionics: Vision Machine’s Digital Poetics, in “Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema”
The gist: Vision Machine’s project took an archival speech with no audio and then asked a deaf person to read the lips of the speaker over the course of numerous playings of the video.
The tool: The readings of the lip reader were layered such that they would overlap. Sometimes, they would echo each other, sometimes they would revise each other, sometimes they would be isolated.
Palimpsest refers to the reusable papyrus where previous writings were not completely erased before a second use.
The authors try to distinguish digital technologies’ mode of layering from analog’s montage/collage. Not sure if this has any traction.
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Lord, same volume, p. 204. Some more info.