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What if you had a “software bus” for routing text between applications that convert or translate text, so you could easily create meta-applications that perform multiple conversions or transformations in series in real time. (Hal has already built a prototype of this, and we’d love to see anybody in the DPI community experiment with it.)

You might begin with a speech-to-text conversion, then send the text to a translation program (e.g. English to Russian), then translate it back into English, then send it to a text-to-speech conversion program. Along the way, you could display the intermediate text using real-time animation programs, such as Flash.

What’s it really good for? (Artistically or otherwise?)

Not sure, yet. I’m just fascinated by the kinds of transformations and randomization that happen along the way. What happens when you translate a sentence into Russian, and then Japanese, and then Urdu? Does any sense remain, or is it all gibberish? What kinds of mistakes get made in speech-to-text, and what does it sound like as text-to-speech?

In another way, it’s a kind of “echoing” utility, that allows you to re-hear something you say, in many different ways. It would be great to just have something that animated and displayed what you say, as you say it, with a built-in delay and fading away in the visual distance.

Or it could be a feed into a robot, or into a “Eliza”-type AI respondent.

It could be used in performance, or in an installation. It would be interesting to feed in classic and overly-familiar texts, and see what comes out the other end.

Any other ideas? You can contact DPI if you’re interested in playing with it.

Hello this is Joseph Silovsky and I am just writing to give everyone a general idea of what my focus for the DPI residency will be. Last year I was a part of the Labapalooza puppet lab at St Anne’s Warehouse, and I developed a performance called The Jester of Tonga (I have been researching it for 5 years). As part of the show I built Stanley, an animatronic robot, to play the part of the Jester. Stanley has many skills, including talking, looking around, and riding a tricycle. My main focus here at DPI is to develop his other possibilities. I will try to link to a youtube video once I figure out how to do that. OK cheers, will write more soon…

DPI is please to announce the selections for the 2007-2008 Artist Residency Program.

Joe Silovsky : The Future of Stanley To further develop Stanly the robot, and “The Jester of Tonga”, as a way to integrate, story, puppetry, robotics/mechanics, and video.

Ed Purver : Untitled research-oriented project to investigate the online performance of self through Second Life and other MMO’s. To build a video sensor grid, and multiple projection environments to present research and interviews.

Mallory Catlett / Juggernaut Theatre Company : Oh What War To further develop the technical video system; a hybrid surveillance system / video game for the production of Oh What War, and to explore the dramaturgical integration of the technology with the characters on stage.

Caden Manson / Big Art Group : SOS To build an “interactive multimedia matrix for performance” to generate ideas and build the production.

DPI looks forward to learning from each of these projects.

I would like to thank everyone who applied, and I’m excited to see how much work is going on. We would also like to invite artists who were not selected to participate in our classes, and equipment loan programs through which a few of the DPI services are available to a wider community.

http://eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=aircall
DEADLINE: October 1 2007

Call Extended, there is still time to get in an application, for some serious support.
Especially from Eyebeam Dewar’s sponsored “Commission for Resident Artists”.

Workshop
WORKSHOP: September 17-19 10AM-4PM $500
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich St. at Rector

Troika Ranch Artistic Co-Director Mark Coniglio will teach a three-day intensive workshop on his real-time media manipulation software Isadora® to create media intensive performances and installations.

http://www.troikaranch.org/performances.html
PERFORMACE: September 12-16, 19-23 7:30PM $20
Wednesday Only Student/Senior Discount: $15
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich St. at Rector

LOOP DIVER built completely from interwoven loops of movement, text, music and interactive visuals. (and 6 live perormers, and who knows how many technicans.)
The performers, visuals, and sounds in Loop Diver will be locked into relentless and strict rational patterns dictated by a computer. But don’t let that worry you, the “Loop Diver” which the piece’s title refers to is the outside hand of the artists that changes the patterns.