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Video Installation Cyber Pushkin 1.0 beta

Media Lab CYLAND
Concept, computer programming:  Sergey Teterin – (Russia, Perm).  2003


The screen is occupied by 3D-generated “talking head of a cyber poet” that recites, during 6.5 minutes, a series of poems written by the computer program “Cyber Pushkin 1.0 beta” that produces Russian-language poems from the extensive data base (poetry of Yesenin, Mandelstam, Vertinsky and Prigov).  Poems are generated automatically, without human participation.

The installation uses a phenomenon of “artificial voice” – a donor’s voice is treated by a special program-vocoder.  It results in a funny and somewhat intimidating impression of a “resuscitated monster” – a computer creature that competes with a human being creatively and spiritually.

The author’s goal is to stir interest in a new creative dialog with the machine and to provoke thoughts about inevitable changes in the contemporary culture (and, in particular, in literature) inspired by the development of computer technologies.
 
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