About

Plagiairc experiment the limit of copyrighting.

Plagiairc is a chat software which uses Facebook chat or Google Talk (jabber).
It creates private chat with other Facebook/Google talk contact. But the interface will not allow the speaker to express himself through a classic keyboard. Indeed, to create a new sentence, he will have to use the words of others, the specific semantics of public chat room users. He will choose « public »  words from a database of 40 000 sentences (English or French) recorded on the Internet Relay Chat (I.R.C.), an Internet text messaging network mainly designed for group communication.

By selecting one by one « public » words, the talker will compose a textual patchwork  where the notion of authorship has been dissolved.

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Sentences

Dialogue extracted from a Plagiairc chat. Sentences written by disparate authors reinterpreted by a new author. (click to zoom)

Download

Plagiairc 1.2 (Windows) (2,7 MiB)

Plagiairc 1.2 (Mac OS) (2,8 MiB)

Plagiairc 1.2 (Java) (2,8 MiB)

To use Plagiairc, you need first to install Java

Neither the username or password used in order to chat with your contact list are recorded by Plagiairc.
It’s only used once to connect to Facebook chat or Google Talk, everything else is private.

In order to login with Facebook you must use your « Facebook username » as a login.
If you don’t have a « Facebook username » go to www.facebook.com/username to create it.

If you don’t have a Facebook or Google Talk account, choose « use an anonymous account ».
You will be able to chat with other people using at the same time another anonymous account.
For example : Download Plagiairc on two different computer, then open it on both and choose « use an anonymous account ».
Then you will see as a contact (Author 1 or Author 2) the other computer.

Help

For any comments or questions you can write to

or @fluaten (twitter)

Credits

Conception and realisation : Nicolas Boillot

Java programming : Jean-François Lahos

Java, Processing, Geomerative, Java jabber client

Plagiairc was created during a netart production residency in la Chambre Blanche, Quebec city, Canada within the framework of the France-Quebec exchanges program, Géographies variables.

With the support of La Chambre Blanche, Incident.net, the Consulat Général de France à Québec and the Ministère des Relations Internationales du Québec.