{"id":33473,"date":"2013-12-22T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mayhap-hello-hi-there-uses-the-famous-television\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:09:35","slug":"mayhap-hello-hi-there-uses-the-famous-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mayhap-hello-hi-there-uses-the-famous-television\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15279806\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayhap.tumblr.com\/post\/70802228337\/hello-hi-there-uses-the-famous-television-debate\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mayhap<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Hello Hi There<\/em>\u00a0uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist\/activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs, designed to mimic human conversations, perform a new \u2013 as it were, improvised \u2013 live text.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As Chomsky and Foucault debate language, creativity, the roots of scientific discovery and the nature of political power, the chatbots talk on and on, endlessly circling the questions of the debate, and frequently veering off into unexpected, at times nonsensical, digressions. Purposely low-tech, the chatbots remind us of the optimism of the late 60s\/early 70s, when natural language programming was thought to soon crack the code of human language production. This optimism in the face of repeated failure echoes the dynamic in the politics of Chomsky and Foucault \u2014 reflecting a similarly fading optimism in the possibility of people to remake our world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Concept and Direction: Annie Dorsen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/> Production design: Kate Howard\u00a0<br \/> Systems design: Jeff Gray\u00a0<br \/> Scenography and Lighting design:\u00a0 Edward Pierce\u00a0<br \/> Chatbot software design:\u00a0 Robby Garner\u00a0<br \/> Consultation:\u00a0 Nicolas Siepen and Berno Odo Polzer\u00a0<br \/> Assistance: Stephen Brackett\u00a0<br \/> Technical Management: Cyd Cahill\u00a0<br \/> General Management: Lisa Schmidt<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0For more, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniedorsen.com\/showproject.php?id=6\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/\">https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mayhap: Hello Hi There\u00a0uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist\/activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs, designed to mimic human conversations, perform a new \u2013 as it were, improvised \u2013 live text. 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