{"id":2662,"date":"2011-07-01T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:23:55","slug":"juillet-2011-n-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/juillet-2011-n-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"Juillet 2011 &#8211; n-cha(n)t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"n-cha(n)t (2001) by David Rokeby\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMIjxnNllMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>n-cha(n)t,<\/em>&nbsp;2001, David Rokeby<br>Prix&nbsp;<em>Ars Electronica Golden Nica<\/em>&nbsp;for Interactive Art, 2002&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab&nbsp;Seven computers run software for voice recognition, free-association, and language generation. Tightly focussed microphones listen to words and phrases spoken by people in the immediate vicinity. The computers are linked by a network through which they stimulate each other. The computers speak their stream of associations through speakers. The ears on the monitors indicate each computer\u2019s state of receptivity. All of the text in the installation is improvised by the computers using extensive bases and rules of grammar. In the absence of outside stimulus, the community of computers finds its way to equilibrium. Finding a consensus through mutual reinforcement, the computers chant in unisson, following a shared stream of associations. Any sort of external sound distracts the community, scattering the chant into a chaos of disparate voices. When someone speaks to one of the computers, the computer attempts to understand what was said. The new stimulus triggers new associations. Left undisturbed once again, the community feels its way back together, finding resonances in synonyms, similar sounding words, and shared associations.&nbsp;\u00bb (lines extracted from the video).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>n-cha(n)t,<\/em>&nbsp;2001, David Rokeby<br>Prix&nbsp;<em>Ars Electronica Golden Nica<\/em>&nbsp;en art interactif, 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Sept ordinateurs synchronisent des logiciels de reconnaissance vocale, de libre association et de g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de langage. Des microphones tr\u00e8s cibl\u00e9s \u00e9coutent les mots et les phrases prononc\u00e9s par les gens dans leur voisinage imm\u00e9diat. Les ordinateurs sont reli\u00e9s par un r\u00e9seau \u00e0 travers lequel ils se stimulent mutuellement. Les ordinateurs expriment leur courant d&rsquo;associations \u00e0 travers les hauts-parleurs. Les oreilles sur les moniteurs indiquent l&rsquo;\u00e9tat de r\u00e9ceptivit\u00e9 de chaque ordinateur. Tout le texte dans l&rsquo;installation est improvis\u00e9 par les ordinateurs \u00e0 l&rsquo;aide de bases et de r\u00e8gles extensives de grammaire. En l&rsquo;absence de stimulus ext\u00e9rieur, la communaut\u00e9 des ordinateurs trouve son chemin vers l&rsquo;\u00e9quilibre. En parvenant \u00e0 un consensus \u00e0 travers le renforcement mutuel, les ordinateurs chantent \u00e0 l&rsquo;unisson, en suivant un courant commun d\u2019associations. N\u2019importe quel son externe distrait la communaut\u00e9, dispersant ainsi la diffusion du chant dans un chaos de voix disparates. Quand quelqu&rsquo;un parle \u00e0 l&rsquo;un des ordinateurs, l&rsquo;ordinateur tente de comprendre ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 dit. Le nouveau stimulus d\u00e9clenche de nouvelles associations. Laiss\u00e9e au repos une fois encore, la communaut\u00e9 retrouve son chemin \u00e0 l\u2019unisson, trouvant des r\u00e9sonances dans des synonymes, des mots similaires et des associations partag\u00e9es.\u00a0\u00bb (extrait de la vid\u00e9o traduit par Louise Boisclair).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n-cha(n)t,&nbsp;2001, David RokebyPrix&nbsp;Ars Electronica Golden Nica&nbsp;for Interactive Art, 2002&nbsp; \u00ab&nbsp;Seven computers run software for voice recognition, free-association, and language generation. Tightly focussed microphones listen to words and phrases spoken by people in the immediate vicinity. The computers are linked by a network through which they stimulate each other. The computers speak their stream of associations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/juillet-2011-n-chant\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}