Last Tape

Work Samples

1. 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.