Excerpt from Drunken Boat, an online journal of art and literature. Issue No.12]]> Anne Phillips, blog Visual Arts Hub]]> Artist Statement
We live in an age of big data, when much of what we say and do is captured and stored in vast, searchable databases. What is the future of the novel that most personal and intimate of artforms as private lives are increasingly turned into public data? DataFiction v0.1 is part of a major new collaboration between myself and artist Andrew Burrell that aims to create a real-time, data-driven novel. These excerpts of generative, network-sourced prose were presented as early work-in-progress, with the aim of inciting audience interest and critical feedback.
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It's a real-time question and answer session which gives audiences the chance to query the Internet collective consciousness on any subject and receive real-time, generative responses. To make it work from a technical point of view, we've needed to define a series of complex (and sometimes simple) algorithms that query online data streams in order to return relevant answers without any intervention from us. Currently we're focused on testing the app that drives the artwork by priming it with questions (if you tweet a question now with the hashtag #enquire Sydney or #enquire Darwin it will be added to the list). We've been finding that the answers given by the digital hive mind offer some glimpses into its emergent personality.
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