Curator Conversations

Typewriter Orchestra (Robin, Daan, Ema)

Conversation #1

Robin:

• Works together with Daan and Ema on a "Typewriter Orchestra"
• Experimenting with the dot matrix printer which will create the base rythm for their orchestra
• Typwriters will be the extra 'melody ' on top
• Maybe using some sytetisers to modify these sound
• Foleded BOOK reference from EMA
• Thinking on the even setting (visual outcome maybe a score to recreate the play of the orchestra)
• Interested in the tension between orality and literacy by translating a performance into one another

Gesture Machine (Valentin)

Conversation #1

• motion capture
• mocap
• found databases of full body suit motions
• managed to load in blender in c3d format
• depth scanner > hologram
• input from someone else, does any project output a text?

Kiki

Conversation #1

• Many ideas, bit of a mess.
• Steve suggested doing a collection of ideas, collection of protocols
• 1st idea: About machine. 1001 nights. Story inside a story. It inspired me to make this machine. This led to my site.
• 2nd idea: A machine about definition. Because a lot of times i need to look up the definition of a word in English. And when I dont know a word in the definition, I need to look up that word again. And again, and so on. It's infinite, this gave the idea for the definition machine.
• 3rd idea: Machine about translation, but not about the meaning of word but the shape of the word. But this one is still vague.
• Way of presenting: making a group.

Conversation #2

• multiple writing machines
• all with their own structures/protocols
• 1001 story machine/chat bot?
• loop over items in stories, to feed back a story from the book
• a story from the story
• casted loops

Youjung

Conversation #1

• have one experiment from the radio show : cooking spam emails https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/youjung/spam-email-recipe/index.html which is a python base itartion machine of a spam email
• interested in game pome and textadventure
• interested in writing vs speaking (literacy and orality)
• intersted in BOTs
• medium is website

Barbs

Conversation #1

• Leaning towards text-adventure chatbot direction - big possibility
• Thinking of: Frankenstein, linking the computer to nature.
• Example of the instructions to the Hobbit, what if you don't get these instructions?
• Is looking for a groupproject in our class: where do I end and where does group begin?
• How to install all projects at WORM/curation: Showing things that are beautiful on it's own but which do co-exist under one roof. Patchwork of different projects, cross-referring in different projects.
• A cool way to navigate would be to make a walking tour, the whole event as a text-adventure design.
• The whole event as a writing machine on a larger scale.

Conversation #2

• feminist chat bot
• barbara
• insipired by eliza
• text adventure, inspired by carrier bag of theory, response to combats in video game culture
• instead of a hunter, you are a gatherer
• Barbara & Youjung are thinking of connecting these two! 👆👇
• poetry and small drawings, small messages