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Revision as of 16:30, 6 February 2019
About
This exhibition shows a selection of algoliterary works made by members of Algolit, an artistic research group with a focus on F/LOSS code and texts, based in Brussels. While artificial intelligences are being created to serve, entertain, record, and know us, they are usually hidden behind interfaces. In these works of fiction, the algoritmic storytellers leave the invisible underworld to become interlocutors. The works show the voice of the robots, algorithmic models that read data, turn words into numbers, make calculations that define patterns and are able to endlessly process new texts thereafter. This exhibition is an attempt to grasp and multiply voices which are absent in our representations of the world. It allows the robots to go into dialogue with us, humans. It allows us to understand their reasoning, to demystify their behaviour, to encounter their personalities, without having to study intensively for years. It is also a tribute to the many machines that Paul Otlet and Henri Lafontaine imagined for their Mundaneum, showing their potential but also their limits.