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=Methodology=
Two parts - site recordings, exhibition scenario.
Site recordings. A series of site-specific interventions developed in real, lived domestic space. I will install various intelligent systems in homes. These will both gather material (audio, video, photographic, physical location tracking) and exist as functional interventions in real domestic space. They will alter the flow of relations in the home through speech synthesis, textual transcription, live video/computer vision compositing, mechatronic automation, producing an augmented or fictionalized transcript of the home space.
Exhibition scenario. Units from the initial phase will be restaged in the exhibition space. The space will be organized into a series of rooms, laying out a very minimal, schematic architecture of a house over the gallery space. (Dogville, Architectural Plan) Individual machines and systems from the first phase will be running in these rooms, effecting both focal interactions with viewers in particular rooms, and communicating with one another in broader, systemic exchanges across the exhibition as machine/system. For their duration of their visit to my piece, viewers will in effect be "living in the machine", composed of the aggregate assemblage of these intelligent subunits. From another dimension, viewers will be living in the house, as materials from the site recordings will be layered over the live processing events.
Placed in closed loops with domestic inhabitants, the intelligent systems I construct foster a reciprocal examination of human and machine. How are our ideas of cognition, perception, and desire changing with the advent of intelligent machines? Which, if any of these, remain strictly the domain of the human? What are the special capabilities, wants, needs proper to each? Their objects of desire? Where do the blurred boundaries between self and other lie? I will harness the productive friction arising from the substitution of machine for human (and human for machine). Given the explicit comparison of one to the other, a mutual diagnosis and critical appraisal arises from the incommensurability of experience and inequality of terms.
structured by recurrent imagery (Austerlitz, Rings of Saturn)
memory of place.
home as the site of development.
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