Colloquy bot series#
Gordon Pask not only thought so, he designed and built a series of machines that did so, as far back as 1953. Is it possible to ‘compute conversation’? I mean - is it possible to write heuristics that respond in surprising and stimulating ways, enabling a back-and-forth exchange among intelligent participants?
Colloquy bot update#
(You can read here about replicating Pask’s original Colloquy.) A wide range of upgrades were made to improve the reliability and behaviors of the mobiles before transferring the work to Artpack Services for crating and shipping.Ĭontinue reading “Colloquy Begins Journey to Paris and Centre Pompidou - Progress Update #11” 1968: Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles, London 2018: Colloquy of Mobiles Replica, Detroitįinal preparations for this future of Colloquy 2018 were completed at Omnicorp Collective Detroit this past weekend, with the help of current and former students of the MFA IxD program of the College for Creative Studies, where the project was initiated 2 years ago by McLeish and Paul Pangaro. Similarly, the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany, has asked to acquire the work for their permanent collection.
With the success of the replica, the world-renowned Centre Pompidou requested that it become part of a major upcoming museum exhibition. On the 50th anniversary of Pask’s original creation, the Colloquy 2018 Project implemented a replica faithful in appearance and behavior, while utilizing modern mechatronics and digital technology. In significant ways, Pask’s “colloquy” (a “speaking together”) of mobiles from 1968 exceeds the interactivity of today’s conversational interfaces. Five interacting, human-scale mobiles (see photos below) held a “conversation” with each other through light and sound, exhibiting cooperation and competition. When first created by Gordon Pask and shown in London in 1968, Colloquy of Mobiles was unlike any immersive gallery experience. There it will be shown in their major exhibition, MUTATIONS / CRÉATIONS 4: NEURONES / LES INTELLIGENCES SIMULÉES from 26 February through 20 April 2020.
Colloquy bot software#
Perrier in tribute to Gordon Pask.)Īfter many weeks of toiling, master fabricator TJ McLeish has completed the mechatronic, digital hardware, and software upgrades to Colloquy 2018 in preparation for its crating and shipping to Centre Pompidou in Paris. (Banner Image: TJ McLeish upgrading Colloquy in preparation for its heading to Europe. Continue reading “Cybernetics, AI, and Ethical Conversations” AI touches billions and sways more of us, in more invasive and uncontrolled ways, every day.ĪI came out of cybernetics, a practice that evolved from a series of trans-disciplinary conversations called the Macy Meetings. While not biological, today’s AI foments polarization, pushes irrelevant products, spreads social bias, and surveils our lives. “Pandemic” comes from “all” and “people”, meaning something negative that effects us all. In a presentation hosted by the AiTech Agora at TU Delft, Paul Pangaro responds with a proposal for collaboration that bridges AI and cybernetics with conversation.Ĭlick for video of presentation. More and more, today’s AI makes the world we see and the world we live in - and we need to respond. Quote above: An approach to interface design based on Heinz von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative where “ choices” are distinguished from “options” - options are anything that is possible, while choices are only those options that are viable and well-suited to this user in this moment. We look forward to the museum’s reopening to the public and the opportunity for TJ Mcleish, Colloquy’s master fabricator, to travel to ZKM and animate the replica to make it fully operational once again. Thereafter the great staff of Centre Pompidou and ZKM disassembled, transported, and reassembled Colloquy at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, where it has become part of the permanent collection. In March the exhibition had to close prematurely due to COVID. That opening was rich in energy and interactions as demonstrated in these short videos. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the unveiling of our replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles on February 26, 2020, at Centre Pompidou in Paris where it was part of the extraordinary exhibition MUTATIONS / CRÉATIONS 4: NEURONES / LES INTELLIGENCES SIMULÉES.
All photos courtesy of Morgane Stricot, ZKM. Above and below: Replica of Gordon Pask’s 1968 “Colloquy of Mobiles” by TJ McLeish and Paul Pangaro now installed at ZKM.
0 kommentar(er)
