Dark Matters Zine: The Flow Of My Voice
Part of the Dark Matters Zine created for the School For Poetic Computation showcase.
Invisible audio waves with no colour spectrum flow into a computer interface. Through microphones, hardware, undersea cabling & server rooms. Passing through layer upon layer that transmits, stores and records them. All are invisible to the user, the value is delivered but what happens inside the black boxes is unknown. What rights or usages are allowed of the data is lost in 100 page license agreements. Power and control is lost. In the final stages those words are outsourced to automatic machine translation, not just recording but altering them in attempts to turn sound into the written word. Translation using neural networks trained upon datasets consisting of millions of human audio recordings. The speech which started invisible has now been turned into words, a factory of production invisible of the human labour, environmental cost or its history
Materials
Paper & print
