Sat 29th March at David Roberts Art Foundation 1.30 pm – 3.30 pm > Studio | Performance/readings/distributed texts: UNIDENTIFIED FICTIONARY OBJECTS When the paradox of science fiction is everyday, artists are testing the limits of language as code, blurring the distinction between computational linguistics and natural language, hinting that technology is not merely a medium to represent thoughts that already exist but is capable of dynamic interactions producing the thoughts it describes. The following presentations act as a back-flip for the forthcoming exhibition at Banner Repeater in April. Oral Backstory by Erica Scourti (20 mins) live performance, A feedback loop produced by reading the past month’s search history into Google’s voice activated search function, activating voice as both semantic and operative, and generating text and image through an interplay of spoken language, voice recognition software and search algorithms. Zoēpic by Jesse Darling, performance lecture with powerpoint, 2014. “There is probably some kind of good in the mere fact of living itself [kata to zēn auto monon]. If there is no great difficulty as to the way of life [kata ton bion], clearly most men will tolerate much suffering and hold on to life [zoē] as if it were a kind of serenity [euēmeria, beautiful day] and a natural sweetness.” Aristotle, “Politics”, 350 bc Robots Building Robots by Tyler Coburn (live reading – reader tbc approx. 10 mins) - meditates on the “lights out” factory, so-named for the lack of need for regular, human supervision. The book takes form as a travelogue of improvised performances, which Coburn conducted at a science park in Southern Taiwan; rumour has it that a robotics company is presently building one such facility on site. During a long walk through the park’s grounds, the author considers literary and philosophical speculations on labour, machinic intelligence and the “automatic factory”: an enduring fiction gradually creeping into reality. Tyler Coburn is an artist and writer based in New York. Error-Correction: an introduction to future diagrams (take 3) by Ami Clarke. Error-Correction App (available through the app store soon) - text/video and pamphlet distributed onsite. A series of experimental takes of an on-going enquiry into diagrams, that reference and include appropriated texts, whereby the voice, through language, is constituted “between someone else’s thoughts and the page’, and considers the production of meaning through inference, association, paradox, and contradiction.
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