Last Tape
From Robert-Depot
Project Description
Three distinct levels of subjectivity. Self, 39 year old self, younger self. Looped, recursive subjectivity. Self-feedback loop.
Technical
- Recording samples for new synthesis voice.
Work Samples
- Solipsist. 2012. Explores language as a closed system through speech recognition software and a receipt printer. Departing from Mel Bochner’s text Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism, Solipsist explores the implications for free expression when speech is inscribed within machine listening systems. The form of the receipt brings ideas of validation and evidence to the project–the viewer leaves with proof of having spoken, evaluated through the impassive arbitration of the technical-administrative system. The viewer can say whatever they want, but the system only hears them in the finite terms of the words it knows–in this case, channeling the artist’s voice.
- Face Swap. 2012. Explores ideas of public persona and personal desire. This computer vision system grafts imagery from a database of characters over the viewer’s faces, aiming for a surreal, psychological shock of disjunctive collage. The voices of the spectral inhabitants (Rauschenberg, Duchamp, Pope.L) can be heard throughout the gallery, coalescing when the viewer presents their face to the system. When identified on camera, the screen cuts to a close view grafting video of the stored personae onto the viewer’s face–both erasing their identity and imposing that of another.