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Interviews
Lauren McCarthy
Alex Ahmed
Stefan Maier
Stefan’s 2018 dossier on machine listening for Technosphere puts the work of artists like George Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Florian Hecker, and Maryanne Amacher into conversation with Google’s wavenet. We talk about these and other works along with Stefan’s own work which treats machine listening as a prepared instrument, ready to be detourned.
Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy
Yolande and Jenny provide a “reboot” manifesta in their book The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot, which lays out their proposals for improving the design and social effects of digital voice assistants, social robots, sex robots, and other AI arriving in the home.
James Parker (w Jasmine Guffond)
Jùnchéng Billy Lì
André Dao
Vladan Joler
Halcyon Lawrence
Halcyon talks us through some of her work on the politics of voice user interfaces: in particular accent bias, ‘Siri discipline’ and the ways in which smart speakers reproduce and hardwire longstanding forms of linguistic imperialism.
Thomas Stachura
Thomas is CEO of Paranoid Inc, which makes devices that block smart speakers from listening. The company’s mandate “earn lots of money by increasing privacy, not eroding it” imagines an emerging privacy industry, as data mining and surveillance continues to become the dominant business model in silicon valley and elsewhere.
Mark Andrejevic
Mark’s recent book Automated Media considers the politics of automation through the “cascading logics” of pre-emption, operationalism, and “framelessness”. We talk through some of these ideas, along with the limits of “surveillance capitalism” as an analytic frame, “touchlessness” in the time of Covid, “operational listening”, what automation is doing to subjectivity... and how all this relates to reality TV.
Shannon Mattern
Leading off from Shannon’s essay on “Urban Auscultation; or, Perceiving the Action of the Heart”, which addresses machine listening in the pandemic, we talk about the stethoscope, the decibel and other histories of machine listening, along with its epistemic and political dimensions and artistic deployments.