{"id":362,"date":"2026-08-14T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:29:55","slug":"promptographes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/promptographes\/","title":{"rendered":"Promptographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promptograph<\/strong> (n.) \u2014 From prompt and -graph. A device that sets in motion, reads, and queries a database materialized as a flow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Promptograph \u2014 Consumerist Autobiography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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For fourteen years<\/strong>I meticulously kept every one of my receipt<\/strong>Sorted chronologically and assembled into a huge reel, they form the film of a life told through consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reel constitutes the database<\/strong> of the Promptograph. The Promptograph makes the receipts scroll past, like a succession of fragments of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Each receipt is a trace <\/strong>of time, place, and action. Their accumulation reveals habits, changes in life, and, more broadly, an interaction with the transformations of society. The mass of paper makes the weight of our consumption tangible, while the mechanical movement of the reel embodies its continuous rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The quantity of accumulated data exceeds the scale of human perception. Captured, digitized, and interpreted by artificial intelligence, this data can become readable in new ways: the machine explores what human memory cannot encompass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The viewer can then prompt<\/em> this archive and interrogate this data-based biography. The Promptograph<\/strong> becomes a machine for scrolling, analyzing, and narrating a life through its traces of consumption and the instructions given to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autobiography without a narrative, in which receipts become memory, data becomes portrait, and scrolling<\/em> becomes a journey through time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Promptographe (n.m.) – De prompt et -graphe. Dispositif permettant de mettre en mouvement, de lire et d\u2019interroger une base de donn\u00e9es mat\u00e9rialis\u00e9e sous forme de flux. Le Promptographe – Autobiographie consum\u00e9riste Pendant quatorze ans, j\u2019ai conserv\u00e9 exhaustivement tous mes tickets de caisse. Tri\u00e9s chronologiquement et assembl\u00e9s en une immense bobine, ils constituent le film d\u2019une […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caillex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}