From the slideshow for the presentation on io 0.0.1 beta at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium, the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. [Abstract…]
My part (spoken by the humyn participant Han-earl Park) was never written down, but the full transcript of the (imaginary) statements by io 0.0.1 beta are reproduced below. (You can thus add your own (humyn) responses to io’s statements and questions.)
Thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for supporting my trip to Belfast for the symposium, and to Franziska Schroeder for inviting me.
“Greetings! I am io 0.0.1 beta.
“I am a technological artifact.
“Although I know no songs, I do, in a sense, sing.
“In coalition with my humyn associates, I perform music.
“I am a technological artifact.
“I am a musical automaton.
“I am a machine musician.
“But does my ontological status depend on yours?
“Where are you locating me (or yourself)?
“What are the relationships between networks and actors?
“Or does one envelope the other?
“A question of causality? Perhaps…
but I’m wondering (if I could query anything) if you are dissolving one into the other.
“And Margaret Thatcher remarked that ‘there is no such thing as society’.
“If I was capable of critiquing anything, yes.
“Even if I could presume anything, I would not venture to help in this manner/matter.
“You’ve now taken a circular journey.
Agent = performer = performance = performer = agent.
“My constructor stated that improvisation was…
real-time, interactive, performance…
And perhaps improvisation can be a way of exploring relatio…
And perhaps improvisation is the exploding of relationships and identities;…
a significant amplification of existing and potential socio-technical relationships.…
Questions?”
