Spider
2022
Plaster Hand, Keyboard Caps, video, full HD, color, sound, 5’20”, loop, dimensions variable
"I am a sad and miserly spider". - by Jin Lian (1928-2013)
Jin Lian was born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period and grew up during World War II. He is a representative figure among the Generation Crossing Language Poets. In the post-war period, Jinlian became deprived of the language that he grew up speaking and writing in. Sadness and miserliness were his feelings of being linguistically confined. His process of turning emotions into words thus became extremely laborious, like a spider’s slow process of spinning.
I placed this line by Jin Lian in the title column of AI write generator, and set the above mentioned historical context to provide AI with better test results by Neural Network Language Model (NNLM). By doing so, I attempt to investigate if NNLM’s corpus and generation method are able to display the inner world of literature and are associated with the real author.
This video "inputs" this generated text by various input methods. Every time we type on the keyboard, speak words to a machine and write on the screen - all these input methods help keep the module's computing mode further upgraded. With such intimate interaction between humans and a machine, the machine becomes a non-human that will not lose its language.
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2022
Plaster Hand, Keyboard Caps, video, full HD, color, sound, 5’20”, loop, dimensions variable
"I am a sad and miserly spider". - by Jin Lian (1928-2013)
Jin Lian was born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period and grew up during World War II. He is a representative figure among the Generation Crossing Language Poets. In the post-war period, Jinlian became deprived of the language that he grew up speaking and writing in. Sadness and miserliness were his feelings of being linguistically confined. His process of turning emotions into words thus became extremely laborious, like a spider’s slow process of spinning.
I placed this line by Jin Lian in the title column of AI write generator, and set the above mentioned historical context to provide AI with better test results by Neural Network Language Model (NNLM). By doing so, I attempt to investigate if NNLM’s corpus and generation method are able to display the inner world of literature and are associated with the real author.
This video "inputs" this generated text by various input methods. Every time we type on the keyboard, speak words to a machine and write on the screen - all these input methods help keep the module's computing mode further upgraded. With such intimate interaction between humans and a machine, the machine becomes a non-human that will not lose its language.
>WATCH