Solipsist Development
Contents
Abstract
Concept.
Equipment.
Timeline
Week 1-2
Introduction to course and project development.
Week 3 - Proposal - 4/12
Week 4
Week 5 - Milestone 1 - 4/26
Working Model of each of two tracks.
- Participant speaking to computer.
- Computer/printer speaking to itself (feedback loop). Interpreting printer sounds as speech. Or transforming them into spech.
Week 6
Week 7 - Milestone 2 - 5/10
Week 8
Week 9 - Milestone 3 - 5/24
Week 10
Final changes, improvements, last minute blitz.
Presentation - 6/7
Research
Week 2
- get system running again
Week 3
- get system running again cont...
- locate small desk and desk lamp. (focus on specific form as installation/object)
Materials
- desk
- desk lamp
- sound-proof commercial glazing (windows)
- receipt printer
- microphone
Code
- CMU Sphinx-4 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) library - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/
- Sphinx-4 wrapper for processing: http://svn.roberttwomey.com/processing/libraries/sphinx/
- Example code for Grammar-based recognition: http://svn.roberttwomey.com/processing/sphinxBochner/
- Example code for Statistical Language Model (SLM) based recognition: http://svn.roberttwomey.com/processing/sphinxSLMTest/
References
- Mel Bochner. "Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism."
- Natalie Jeremijenko.
- "If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk To Things, What Do We Say?" http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/voicechip
- "Dialogue With A Monologuq: Voice Chips and the Products of Abstract Speech". http://www.topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/classes/readings/Jeremijenko/VoiceChips.pdf
- Kelly Dobson - Machine Therapy:
- "explorations of what we interact with when we interact with machines... much more than the machine itself... our sense of self, agency in the interpersonal and political world, and our shared psychological, emotional, cultural, and perceptual approaches to the world." (from abstract http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44329)
- Blendie. http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/
- Machine Therapy sessions. http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/machinetherapy/
- Machine Therapy. PhD Dissertation. 2007. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44329
- Frances White. Valdrada. 1990. [1]
- Redaction Paintings. Jenny Holzer. 2007. [2]
- White Room #4 / Wittgenstein & my Brother Frank. 2005 William Pope.L.