Machine listening
Listening machines have not only a strange slightly ephemeral effect but also the materials used to create them have a real tangible detriment to the world, much like any technology there are benefits behind it however there are also detriments. Indeed machine listening can help detect heightened levels of aggression in public, predicting fights and public disturbances, however, these listening algorithms don’t come out of thin air , they are coded by people, people with unconscious (or perhaps even conscious)
How do we resist?, it has been made where you have to be surveilled in order to participate in society, we must develop a more critical technopolitics.
Liquid Architecture
Formed in the late 90’s, cross disciplinary practice, showcase for the work of students.
Eavesdropping project
The word eavesdropping holds law and listening together in an interesting way, what can the history of eavesdropping tell us about the practice today? How does it relate to a post Edward Snowden world? Are we not being listened to now more than ever before, Technology has linked listening to power, control, governance…
Manus Project
one of the men on Manus made a sound recording and sent it ‘onshore’ for swift upload to the gallery. By the exhibition’s end, there were eighty-four recordings in total, each ten minutes long. The result is an archive of fourteen hours.
This led to the creation of the podcast “the messenger”
They were able to sneak in zoom recorders and phone data which could be uploaded via dropbox.
No narrative, no retelling, simply listening to them
“To make audible what was previously inaudible”