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sTALKs (last edited: 2024)

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Starting from the purely theoretical view that both body and language appear to be bounded by intrinsic and extrinsic structures, limits, and relations so that at the very same time they produce and are themselves produced by (extra-contextual) meaning, this artistic endeavour attempts to deploy this theoretical apparatus in a contemporary context of rethinking the relations between speech, artificial intelligence and embodied forms of subjectivity. Following this line of thought, a meditation with speculative moments is attempted through human-machine inter-written texts enacted by inter-twining speech that reciprocally represent and interpret their own transitive nature. In this context, ambiguous writings from humans with bodies in some kind of transitional or excruciating state are fed into thinking machines. The former are expanded, annotated, or re-signified by the latter so that new textual corpora emerge that feed into interrogations of the meaning-making processes and the body-language analogies at play. Such creative processes become a speculative means, a mechanism and a metaphor to evolve modes of thinking embodied subjectivity through human-machine linguistic complementarity. These processes are conceptualised in the perception of an “Auditor” -an observer, a posture of listening, or a body framed in itself- that is meant to internalise the implied ambiguity and to substantiate a schizoid condition: the collapsing of an embodied voice (and its associated semantics) into disembodied computational language processing. This endeavour comprises theoretical contemplation and artistic practice that methodologically intersect to create an organic and subversive discourse, where each part is foreign to each other, but makes sense together as a whole. As such, the theoretical part is meant to constitute a sort of document of a thought process in the course of elaboration, intended to be challenged, reshaped and ultimately fed back by the artistic part and vice versa. sTALKs unfolds in a series of expositions, each addressing a case study of human writing with versions of its rendering by thinking machines of current and widely available technology. Here, writings by Alan Turing and Hélène Smith are processed through OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) language model.

type	research exposition
keywords	artificial intelligence, embodiment, language, transition, memory
date	20/03/2024
last modified	27/03/2024
status	in progress
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copyright	Katerina Undo
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1742344/1742345

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