News Machine
2013, computer, cell phones, loudspeaker, tape recorder, crt monitor, video camera, antenna, radio, microphone, thermal printer, lighting stands, custom brackets, photo backdrop.
2013, computer, cell phones, loudspeaker, tape recorder, crt monitor, video camera, antenna, radio, microphone, thermal printer, lighting stands, custom brackets, photo backdrop.
The News Machine sends a user-contributed tweet through a cycle of machine-to-machine translations, mirroring how meaning and message can shift as stories travel through the twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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The installation is activated by a participant tweeting to the News Machine's Twitter account, and the text of the tweet is then read out loud via a text-to-speech program through a megaphone. A tape recorder in front of the megaphone records this emission, and translates the audio to text using speech-to-text software.
The resulting text is then displayed on a television monitor. A video camera captures an image of the monitor and processes this image using optical character recognition to extract text. This text is then read out loud by the speech-to-text program via radio, which is recorded by the public address microphone, and translated again into text via the speech-to-text system.
This final result is then printed out alongside the original Twitter message for the visitor to take with them. A log of the responses is also available on Twitter @ColorsMachine
Created for Colors Magazine edition #86, 'Making the News'
Cover Concept Felipe Rocha
Production Mauro Bedoni
The installation is activated by a participant tweeting to the News Machine's Twitter account, and the text of the tweet is then read out loud via a text-to-speech program through a megaphone. A tape recorder in front of the megaphone records this emission, and translates the audio to text using speech-to-text software.
The resulting text is then displayed on a television monitor. A video camera captures an image of the monitor and processes this image using optical character recognition to extract text. This text is then read out loud by the speech-to-text program via radio, which is recorded by the public address microphone, and translated again into text via the speech-to-text system.
This final result is then printed out alongside the original Twitter message for the visitor to take with them. A log of the responses is also available on Twitter @ColorsMachine
Created for Colors Magazine edition #86, 'Making the News'
Cover Concept Felipe Rocha
Production Mauro Bedoni