The B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance presents Oracle

About the Installation

Oracle encircles the audience in a generative projection environment inhabited by digital entities speaking with synthesized voices. In order to hear these softly spoken words, the audience may approach the projection surface at the edges of the installation space, initiating an encounter with each tentative oracular being.  

Oracle utilizes various forms of machine learning algorithms for text generation (GPT-2), and speech synthesis (Coqui.ai) as well as image generation (DALL-E 2) for oracle design inspiration.

Artists

Paulus van Horne (they/them)- writer, programmer, projection and sound designer

Originally from New York, Paulus is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Media Practices at University of Colorado Boulder. Their practice-based research explores gender, technology and Human Computer Interaction through artificially-produced voices. Paulus' research is affiliated with the Media Archaeology Lab and Whaaat? Lab at CU. They are currently a NEST Graduate Fellow.

Ian Hatcher (he/him) - writer, programmer, voice actor

Ian Hatcher is a writer, coder, sound poet, voice actor, and performer whose work explores power and language in the context of digital systems. He is the author of a poetry collection, Prosthesis, and a member of the performance collective Lucky Pierre. Recent/upcoming shows include 7a*11d at the Theatre Center in Toronto and Festival Actoral in Marseille and Montreal. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Norway in 2021-22 and just began a PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance (IAWP) at CU Boulder.

This work was made possible through the B2's residency program, to find out more visit https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/b2/apply-b2-creative-residency