scopal affairsCounterparts
Systems that answer, withdraw or listen.
Systems can enable conversation while also setting its rules. Two language models in fixed roles, an account supplied with reactions by scripts, a terminal that listens and takes notes, an object that retreats from the cursor.
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A conversation with conditions
On menon
Two instances of the same language model talk across many rounds. One may only ask, the other only answer; neither is to perform consciousness or deny it out of caution, and both are to stay with their contradictions. The dialogue appears as a spatial graph.
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A gesture, a response
Instagram experiment · 2017
Digital Harvest
From 2017 to 2019, an automated Instagram account meets human replies with likes, comments and follows. Social attention is partly programmed here.
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Trust at the terminal
Beichtstuhl
A terminal replaces the priest, data retention replaces absolution. Where the seal of confession used to be, there is now a log.
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An object that withdraws
Phage #1
An interactive geometric object. When the cursor approaches, the form retreats.
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