On Hacking Consciousness and Reprogramming Language
An ingenious interrogation of authorship and mechanical production
Italian artists Marco Mazzi (born 1980) and Elisabetta Porcinai (born 1987) use a machine translator to transform an original text into a work authored by the machine. Here, essays contextualize the work alongside precedents such as Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room and Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator.”
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Marco Mazzi & Elisabetta Porcinai: Industrial On Hacking Consciousness and Reprogramming Language
Published by Mousse Publishing.
An ingenious interrogation of authorship and mechanical production
Italian artists Marco Mazzi (born 1980) and Elisabetta Porcinai (born 1987) use a machine translator to transform an original text into a work authored by the machine. Here, essays contextualize the work alongside precedents such as Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room and Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator.”
