Self-Initiated – factory house

Exoplanètes

factory house — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:49:15 +0000

Work in progress…

The post Exoplanètes appeared first on factory house.

Protest Chair

factory house — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:28:53 +0000

Sketch for a protest banner that folds into a chair. Work in progress…

The post Protest Chair appeared first on factory house.

Fine Tuning

factory house — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:40:54 +0000

This is a collection of snapshots gone wrong taken by a web crawler as it ‘crawls’ millions of sites on the internet.

The post Fine Tuning appeared first on factory house.

It’s Groundhog Day!

factory house — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:54:07 +0000

The post It’s Groundhog Day! appeared first on factory house.

Hotel Abandonado

factory house — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:23:27 +0000

Hotel Abandonado (Abandoned Hotel) was taken of the flat plain surrounding the city of Santarém in Portugal. There was a rare climatic phenomenon that day when a perfect sheet of radiation fog perfectly covered the entire plain. The only thing to emerge from the “clouds” are the ruins of a neglected hotel under construction. The project for that hotel was then moved to a new site on the top of the hill overlooking the plain and where this photo was taken.

This print is now part of Múltiplos and can be bought through Carpe Diem – Arte e Pesquisa.

The post Hotel Abandonado appeared first on factory house.

Drawing Studies 004 — Island Stack

factory house — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 22:48:37 +0000

A drawing and pseudo-cartographic study based on contour matching custom software for grouping islands and then stacking them over each other from the biggest island to the smallest.

The post Drawing Studies 004 — Island Stack appeared first on factory house.

KREBS

factory house — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:31:53 +0000

This booklet is one of the outcomes of our short and very unusual artist residency at an engineering firm called KREBS in the outskirts of Paris. One of the main services provided by this firm was to design nuclear power plants in Japan.
Based on a true story the booklet is a detective / sci-fi take on some events that happened at a power plant in the past. It is centered around an imaginary man who in fact was on the KREBS payroll for more than a decade. Covered in mystery, the book encourages the KREBS employers (technicians, engineers, administrators) to solve the riddles by investigating and asking their co-workers for more clues.

The post KREBS appeared first on factory house.

Types

factory house — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:32:27 +0000

The post Types appeared first on factory house.

Like Light

factory house — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 09:54:15 +0000

The post Like Light appeared first on factory house.

Avolition

factory house — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:07:58 +0000

Avolition is a sound installation consisting of two computers “speaking” to each other. Both run a custom software derived from ELIZA – a primitive natural language processing software developed in the late 1960s. In the fields of computer science and linguistics, natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) language. One of the goals of NLP has been to make computers as intelligent as people. Historically, ELIZA was one of the first pieces of software to successfully simulate human-like responses from a computer. It is an interactive program which requires user’s text input. Its response is based on logical syntax calculations done with the text inputted, attempting to demonstrate back to the user its ‘understanding’ of the theme of the conversation. It demonstrates this understanding by responding with a question, closely resembling one that a psychoanalyst would ask. This method develops a ‘mirror style’ conversation in which ELIZA encourages the user to do essentially all the talking – exposing and concurrently analysing their own personal problems. This process is an efficient way of disguising ELIZA’s true artificial nature for longer.

The setup is quite different in Avolition: there is no human (text) input – as one ELIZA interacts with another ELIZA directly. The listener eavesdrops on a strange conversation between the two programs as they try to investigate each other’s “problems”. They are constantly generating a new response and the dialogue is endless.

The audio that you hear is a live recording of the sound installation done in Cabot Square in Canary Wharf, London in 2010.

The post Avolition appeared first on factory house.