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Based on a semantic and sonic cartography of the Capitol attack, the text-to-image and sound-to-image techniques generate archival traces of the event.
The prompts used to shape the generations mirror the various words and phrases uttered by the participants associated with that day in Washington. The result is a multi-perspectivist interpretation, crossing fantasy and anachronic references.
You’re very special was built as an opportunity to let the machine gradually generate traces of the event, no longer direct but modified as a constantly renewed interpretation. Those semiotics concepts help to understand that computer science, humanities and art should be thought of as a spectrum. We could re-think the place of machines inside the human and non-human communities as agencies that are part of the construction of meaning.