Esteban Agosin will be exhibiting the artwork " La Oreja" (The Ear) as part of the IN-SONORA Sound Art and Interactive Art Encounter in Madrid, Spain

DXARTS PhD candidate, Esteban Agosin will be exhibiting the artwork " La Oreja" (The Ear) as part of the IN-SONORA Sound Art and Interactive Art Encounter.    "La Oreja" is a listening, surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence  (A.I.) project. It is a device that can collect human voices, transcribe them into text, and with that information create new texts.  "La Oreja" is a machine that through an A.I. system can create ideas (texts) based on what it is listening to. It is a performative action that maps conversations in the city in real-time, processes human voices, and uses A.I. systems to create false voices, false texts, and then an online transmission of the landscape and soundscape live, mixed with fake and machine voices. In this iteration, every day of the exhibition, collected texts will be trained into a machine learning text processing (NLP), working as a data set, feeding the system with the site-specific reality, generating day by day more complex A.I text and transforming this piece into a cultural listening device. 

IN-SONORA Festival is one of the most important art exhibitions in the independent cultural scene of Madrid and its aim is to reach all types of public and those who are interested in meeting new creators of the international contemporary scene. In this regard, the festival maintains its commitment to show the disciplinary, aesthetic, geographical and generational diversity inherent to the experimental approach in both sonic and interactive art fields, as well as the community that integrates them, also proposing, through various workshops and meetings, space for collaboration and collective learning.

This participation is under the support of  DXARTS, University of Washington, and DIRAC (Cultural Affairs Division, Government of Chile)

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