memory

Aura of Audiography

Filip Johánek (CZ)

What is an audiography? It is a remedy for visual smog we have to breathe; it is an alternative to an integrated spectacle of instant visual and tactile pleasures that seduce us; it is an imprint of sound which can serve as a trigger of personal memory emergence. The audiography has the same power as the smell of Madeleine cakes in Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. Close your eyes and listen. What do you see?

Nothing wild in particular

Jeremie Nuel (FR)

Consciousness, memory, reality and identity are regular themes in Philip K. Dick’s books. These concepts have fed into AI research since the seventies. This work uses Andrej Karpathy’s neural network, known as “recurrent,” to train a computer program, using as source a text or a corpus. Once trained, the code writes, character by character, a new text. The corpus that feeds the neuronal network shortens Philip K. Dick’s work (52 books). As a mirrored entity, strange and undisciplined, the computer program tries to write, at every iteration, step by step, an often-absurd story, and sometimes, a poetic one.