The Nightwatch by Rembrandt (with Flash)

A Random Generator which produces captions from snapshot photography, 1992

»See how the flowers grow by the poolside«, »Aunt Jana’s mice«, »Mother and the new tv«, »A weekend in New York: McDonald’s at Washington Square«, »Lenny and his freckled wife«, »At 11:30 p.m. at the Lizard Lounge«, »Daddy has bought himself new socks«, »Mrs. Lisson filmed with autofocus (but still blurred)!«, »Marcia smoking a cigarette«, »The 12th wedding anniversary (1961)«, »Swimming on the Isle of Man«, »Julie doing her outrageous imitation of Meryl Streep!«, »The giraffe has just arrived from Africa« ...

The Nightwatch by Rembrandt was created in 1992 as a German language program and was expanded and translated into English in 1995. Consisting of 2 to 8 fragments the computer mixes lines randomly, nearly a 100 million snapshot captions can be produced by the current version of the random generator.
“Borderlines”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1994 (image 1)
Installation for 5 computers in combination with parts of Archive by Joachim Schmid, “Sur l'escpace, la mémoire et la métaphore”, le moi de la photo, Montréal 1997 (image 2)