“The Voice of the Machine Audience” presented by Stagliano
Symposium:
- ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Humans, Machines and Creativity
Presentation Title:
- The Voice of the Machine Audience
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Abstract:
Smart devices in the home, like Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple’s Siri, form a non-human but increasingly present audience in our daily life and activities. This hidden audience expresses a certain voice, in the agential sense, by cultivating and shaping how we address it. This is an acousmatic voice in Michel Chion’s sense of it, and is worth thinking about as a rhetorical form, with such media devices shaping and coaxing our behavior, blurring the line between speaker and audience, human and non-human, agent and machine.
