Lipstick Enigma

Harris Corporation Engineering Center lobby, north entrance

Lipstick Enigma, Janet Zweig, computer driven sentence generator, 2010, Lipstick Enigma is a language-generating machine that combines the jargon and syntax of fashion with the vocabulary of engineering to create new sentences that are displayed in lipstick-shaped pixels. The motors are powered by custom circuit boards that receive information from a computer that holds the Java program that drives the pixels and generates the sentences. A motion detector triggers the computer to write a new sentence and then display it.

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