Baden Pailthorpe on "Lingua Franca": "As we are progressively integrated into the cold folds of the algorithm, we can perhaps take solace in the emergent poetics of space, language and subjectivity that sprout amongst these same coded tapestries. Whilst Google and the broader digital economy increasingly mediate and code our interactions with the world, sporadic pockets of resistance and uncontrollable lines of flight are equally born from within these new economies of control. Indeed, the relentless repetition of translation in Lingua Franca facilitates a kind of intensity that amplifies the machine’s attempts to capture and recompose itself, only to spin further out of control and derail completely. What is revealed in its wake is entropic; perhaps the true visage of the algorithm, a disarmed, emancipated expression of the machinic voice in the age of software." See http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/articles/issue-1/pailthorpe-lingua-franca/
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"Dear Rita," a series of eight letters to Rita Raley (Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara), is a research response to Raley’s presentation “Algorithmic Translations,” which she gave at the "Performance, Technology, Translation" event in New York in April 2015. Organized by The Barnard Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Theatre, the event explored “the theoretical and practical intersections between contemporary technologies of translation and performance.” In addition to presentations by Raley and W. B. Worthen, the symposium included a performance of love.abz, an independent art work and the artistic part of my doctoral degree at University of the Arts Helsinki, Theater Academy. In "Dear Rita," I use screen captures of the Google Translate website to address through translation the many links and questions that arise from Raley’s insightful presentation. I comment on Raley’s discussion of Eric Zboya’s and Baden Pailthorpe’s work, both visual artists and researchers, and relate them to my own ongoing artistic research project into what I call “live writing.” My inquiry deals with a form of improvisatory, collaborative dramatic writing that employs algorithmic mediation and translation. In asking what the task of the machine translator in performance is or could be, I remark on some of the themes Raley discusses, including those relating to authorship, the nature of algorithmic translation, and the gesture of insistent re-translation of already machine translated text.
- Otso Huopaniemi - Dear Rita - 2016
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