diff --git a/content/curriculum/index.md b/content/curriculum/index.md index e73c985..1e5df26 100644 --- a/content/curriculum/index.md +++ b/content/curriculum/index.md @@ -16,18 +16,6 @@ description: "Machine Listening Curriculum: A platform for collective listening, **![]()** -9pm AEST, 12pm CET. {{< nosup black >}}[REGISTER](https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d3XUJVrMRaebCWWI4uQWeg){{< /nosup >}} - -Liquid Architecture x Unsound - -Machine Listening returns to Unsound in 2021, having launched last year, with the next episode in the curriculum. Unnatural Language Processing explores the history, politics and artistic potential of automatic speech recognition. - -Along with talks, conversations and newly commissioned audio experiments, the session launches an 'instrument', built in collaboration with {{}}[Reduct](https://reduct.video/){{}}, for the filtering, processing and manipulation of speech and text, which the public will be invited to play. - -Appearing at the live session are {{< nosup black >}}[Alessandro Bosetti](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/alessandro-bosetti){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Martina Raponi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/martina-raponi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Sue Tompkins](https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/sue-tompkins){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Roslyn Orlando](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/roslyn-orlando){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Justin Clemens](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/justin-clemens){{< /nosup >}}, and {{< nosup black >}}[Mehak Sawney](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mehak-sawhney){{< /nosup >}}; plus contributions by{{< nosup black >}}[Robert Ochshorn](https://rmozone.com/){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jennifer Walshe](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jennifer-walshe){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Tomomi Adachi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/tomomi-adachi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Johannes Kreidler](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/johannes-kreidler){{< /nosup >}}, Michael McClelland and more. - -Instruments are for playing. Preview the instrument now: {{}}[word processor](https://machinelistening.exposed/experiment/word-processor/){{}}. N.B. works best with Firefox. - # Machine Listening, a curriculum @@ -37,7 +25,7 @@ MACHINE LISTENING is a new investigation and experiment in collective learning, ## Contributors -{{< nosup black >}}[Tomomi Adachi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/tomomi-adachi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Angie Abdilla (Old Ways, New)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/angie-abdilla "A Palawa woman applying Indigenous cultural knowledges to inform placemaking, strategic design and deep technologies."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lawrence Abu Hamdan](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan "Private Ear with an interest in sound and its intersection with politics"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Alex Ahmed (Project Spectra)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/alex-ahmed "Applying software development and data visualization techniques to promoting social change, understanding and communicating injustice, and improving the health and wellness of oppressed people."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mark Andrejevic](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mark-andrejevic "Professor in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University, who contributes expertise in the social and cultural implications of data mining, and online monitoring"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Andrew Brooks](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/andrew-brooks "Sydney-based artist, writer, curator and organiser whose work takes the form of installations, performances, text works and sound recordings."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/deforrest-brown-jr "New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator, who produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Bridget Chappell](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/hextape){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Kate Crawford (AI Now)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/kate-crawford "A leading researcher and professor who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[André Dao](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/andre-dao "Writer, editor, and researcher; and the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an oral history project documenting people’s experience of immigration detention"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Debris Facility](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/debris-facility "Debris Facility Pty Ltd is a queer Corporate Entity which entangles itself with Bodies, Complicating their Borders with Haptic Interfaces"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mat Dryhurst (Interdependence)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mat-dryhurst "An artist and researcher based in Berlin Germany, whose research focuses on technical and ethical protocols."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jessica Feldman](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jessica-feldman){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lee Gamble (UK)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lee-gamble){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jasmine Guffond](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jasmine-guffond "Artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Bani Haykal](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/bani-haykal){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Roslyn Helper](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/roslyn-helper){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jenny Kennedy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jenny-kennedy "Postdoctoral research fellow in Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, whose projects focus on digital inclusion of low-income populations, and the gendering of AI and automation in home environments"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Vladan Joler](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/vladan-joler "Co-founder of SHARE Foundation, and leader of SHARE Lab: a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical aspects of the intersections between technology and society."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Karolina Iwańska (Panoptykon Foundation)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/karolina-iwanska "Karolina Iwańska is a lawyer and policy analyst advertising at the Panoptykon Foundation and a 2019/20 Mozilla Tech Policy Fellow working on targeted advertising. "){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jules LaPlace](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jules-laplace "Programmer and musician based in Berlin, creating artwork and conducting research with machine learning and data sonification."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Halcyon Lawrence](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/halcyon-lawrence "Assistant Professor of Technical communication at Towson University in Maryland, whose scholarship focuses on speech intelligibility and the design of speech interactions, particularly for under-represented user populations."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jon Leidecker (Wobbly)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jon-leidecker-wobbly){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jùnchéng Billy Lì](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/juncheng-billy-li "Ph.D. Student at the Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, who has spent four years researching topics related to deep learning, including working on Deep Learning’s applications in audio and multi-modal data."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Stefan Maier](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/stefan-maier "Artist and composer based in Vancouver, Canada, whose compositions, installations, and performances, examine historical and emergent sound technologies."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Shannon Mattern](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/shannon-mattern "Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mattin](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mattin){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lauren Lee McCarthy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lauren-mccarthy "An artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living, and the creator of p5.js, an open source programming language for learning creative expression through code online."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lee Weng Choy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lee-weng-choy){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Luca Lum](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/luca-lum){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}} [Yeshimabeit Milner (Data for Black Lives)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/yeshimabeit-milner "Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives:a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jazz Money](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jazz-money "A poet and filmmaker of Wiradjuri heritage. She specialises in story telling, community collaboration and digital production."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Thao Phan](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/thao-phan "Feminist STS researcher who specializes in gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures, and Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Martina Raponi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/martina-raponi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Kathy Reid (Mozilla)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/kathy-reid "Working at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and technical communities, She was previously Digital Platforms Manager at Deakin University, Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft.AI, President of Linux Australia, and a voice open source specialist at Mozilla."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Snack Syndicate](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lorange-brooks){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Joel Spring](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/joel-spring "A Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Tom Smith](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/tom-smith "Sydney based artist, curator and musician, whose interests include the tyranny and poetics of the generic, aesthetic standardisation in music production, and the emancipatory potential of default media platforms."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Yolande Strengers](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/yolande-strengers "Digital sociologist and human-computer interaction scholar investigating the energy and gender effects of digital, emerging and smart technologies on how we live and engage with each other."){{< /nosup >}},{{< nosup black >}}[Hito Steyerl](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/hito-steyerl "Artist, filmmaker and writer, with a focus on media, technology and the distribution of images."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jennifer Walshe](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jennifer-walshe "Composer, performer and visual artist of whom the Irish Times has said that “without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years”."){{< /nosup >}}. +{{< nosup black >}}[Tomomi Adachi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/tomomi-adachi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Angie Abdilla (Old Ways, New)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/angie-abdilla "A Palawa woman applying Indigenous cultural knowledges to inform placemaking, strategic design and deep technologies."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lawrence Abu Hamdan](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan "Private Ear with an interest in sound and its intersection with politics"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Alex Ahmed (Project Spectra)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/alex-ahmed "Applying software development and data visualization techniques to promoting social change, understanding and communicating injustice, and improving the health and wellness of oppressed people."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mark Andrejevic](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mark-andrejevic "Professor in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University, who contributes expertise in the social and cultural implications of data mining, and online monitoring"){{< /nosup >}}, {< nosup black >}}[Alessandro Bosetti](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/alessandro-bosetti){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Andrew Brooks](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/andrew-brooks "Sydney-based artist, writer, curator and organiser whose work takes the form of installations, performances, text works and sound recordings."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[DeForrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/deforrest-brown-jr "New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator, who produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Bridget Chappell](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/hextape){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lee Weng Choy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lee-weng-choy){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Kate Crawford (AI Now)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/kate-crawford "A leading researcher and professor who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[André Dao](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/andre-dao "Writer, editor, and researcher; and the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an oral history project documenting people’s experience of immigration detention"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Debris Facility](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/debris-facility "Debris Facility Pty Ltd is a queer Corporate Entity which entangles itself with Bodies, Complicating their Borders with Haptic Interfaces"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mat Dryhurst (Interdependence)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mat-dryhurst "An artist and researcher based in Berlin Germany, whose research focuses on technical and ethical protocols."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jessica Feldman](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jessica-feldman){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lee Gamble (UK)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lee-gamble){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jasmine Guffond](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jasmine-guffond "Artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Bani Haykal](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/bani-haykal){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Roslyn Helper](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/roslyn-helper){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jenny Kennedy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jenny-kennedy "Postdoctoral research fellow in Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, whose projects focus on digital inclusion of low-income populations, and the gendering of AI and automation in home environments"){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Vladan Joler](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/vladan-joler "Co-founder of SHARE Foundation, and leader of SHARE Lab: a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical aspects of the intersections between technology and society."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Karolina Iwańska (Panoptykon Foundation)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/karolina-iwanska "Karolina Iwańska is a lawyer and policy analyst advertising at the Panoptykon Foundation and a 2019/20 Mozilla Tech Policy Fellow working on targeted advertising. "){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jules LaPlace](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jules-laplace "Programmer and musician based in Berlin, creating artwork and conducting research with machine learning and data sonification."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Halcyon Lawrence](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/halcyon-lawrence "Assistant Professor of Technical communication at Towson University in Maryland, whose scholarship focuses on speech intelligibility and the design of speech interactions, particularly for under-represented user populations."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jon Leidecker (Wobbly)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jon-leidecker-wobbly){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jùnchéng Billy Lì](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/juncheng-billy-li "Ph.D. Student at the Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, who has spent four years researching topics related to deep learning, including working on Deep Learning’s applications in audio and multi-modal data."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Lauren Lee McCarthy](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lauren-mccarthy "An artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living, and the creator of p5.js, an open source programming language for learning creative expression through code online."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Luca Lum](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/luca-lum){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Stefan Maier](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/stefan-maier "Artist and composer based in Vancouver, Canada, whose compositions, installations, and performances, examine historical and emergent sound technologies."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Shannon Mattern](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/shannon-mattern "Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mattin](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mattin){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Michael McLelland](hhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/kwz3wy/new-zealands-indie-rock-provocateur-is-actually-quite-a-nice-guy){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}} [Yeshimabeit Milner (Data for Black Lives)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/yeshimabeit-milner "Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives:a movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jazz Money](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jazz-money "A poet and filmmaker of Wiradjuri heritage. She specialises in story telling, community collaboration and digital production."){{< /nosup >}}, {< nosup black >}}[Robert Ochshorn](https://rmozone.com/){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Thao Phan](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/thao-phan "Feminist STS researcher who specializes in gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures, and Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Martina Raponi](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/martina-raponi){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Kathy Reid (Mozilla)](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/kathy-reid "Working at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and technical communities, She was previously Digital Platforms Manager at Deakin University, Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft.AI, President of Linux Australia, and a voice open source specialist at Mozilla."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Mehak Sawney](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/mehak-sawhney){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Snack Syndicate](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/lorange-brooks){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Joel Spring](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/joel-spring "A Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs who works across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Tom Smith](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/tom-smith "Sydney based artist, curator and musician, whose interests include the tyranny and poetics of the generic, aesthetic standardisation in music production, and the emancipatory potential of default media platforms."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Yolande Strengers](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/yolande-strengers "Digital sociologist and human-computer interaction scholar investigating the energy and gender effects of digital, emerging and smart technologies on how we live and engage with each other."){{< /nosup >}},{{< nosup black >}}[Hito Steyerl](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/hito-steyerl "Artist, filmmaker and writer, with a focus on media, technology and the distribution of images."){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Sue Tompkins](https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/sue-tompkins){{< /nosup >}}, {{< nosup black >}}[Jennifer Walshe](https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/jennifer-walshe "Composer, performer and visual artist of whom the Irish Times has said that “without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years”."){{< /nosup >}}. ## Why a curriculum? @@ -75,6 +63,14 @@ As part of _Free Jazz III_, [Improvisation and Control](http://ntu.ccasingapore. 4. ![]() {{< nosup >}}[(documentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBCzoRGnTU){{< /nosup >}} +**Unnatural Language Processing (17. October 2021, Liquid Architecture x Unsound)** + +Machine Listening returned to Unsound in 2021 with Unnatural Language Processing, exploring the history, politics and artistic potential of automatic speech recognition. The session also launched an 'instrument', built in collaboration with {{}}[Reduct](https://reduct.video/){{}}. {{}}[Instruments are for playing.](https://machinelistening.exposed/experiment/word-processor/){{}}. Works best with Firefox. + +5. ![]() +{{< nosup >}}[(documentation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Vzqaoeul8){{< /nosup >}} + + ## Acknowledgements Machine Listening is presented by Liquid Architecture, and developed in partnership with Melbourne Law School, ANU School of Art & Design,Unsound, and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.