Imaginary Machinescapes
Machine interpretations of signals from the electromagnetic spectrum towards the creation of speculative soundscapes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22370/margenes.2023.16.24.3900Keywords:
Mechanical listening, Machine Listening, sound art, non-human languages, technological ecosystems, machine ontology, electromagnetic fields, speculative soundscapesAbstract
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in current contexts raises questions about what kind of paths this technology opens in the field of art. In both ethical and aesthetic aspects, it seems imperative to reflect on its uses and implications. This essay arises from artistic experiments related to sound, nature and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In that sense, the focus of this work is, mainly, on the aesthetic repercussions of symbiotic systems between nature and technology. This research has taken as its object of study the capture of audio signals in electromagnetic fields and radio frequencies. Likewise, the aesthetic consequences that the Machine Listening classification process entails and the possible interpretations and outputs that an aesthetic system can potentially generate.
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