Semiotics of the Zoom Room
(Meeting, Meeting, Meeting)
Jamie Burkart, August 2020

Abecedarium of three conversations. The screen is divided horizontally and vertically into nine equal parts. At the top of each column is a video conversation to join.

A clicked conversation advances the letter of the alphabet from A to Z — selecting the word which was most frequently spoken in the clicked conversation which begins with that letter. The word is spoken in a round across all conversations which have it.

The word repeated in a conversation — is repeated by the conversation — uniquely up to three times per conversation. Unique repetitions cascade the word downward. Unique repetitions appear to stream the conversations downward where they have the words.