a sunday in the forest

Elegia Machina is a book of poems written in French by aurèce vettier in collaboration with a machine, more precisely a Markov chain. This poem will be the only one from the book translated in English and published as a digital piece. The collector of this piece is allowed to whisper this poem at any time to their loved ones. A Markov chain is a mathematical process that has been around for a long time and which has already been used, notably in music. Some consider it to represent an embryonic form of artificial intelligence. Markov chains can be used to reproduce phenomena – texts, images, sounds, scents...–through respecting basic data, called “training data”. In the case of a text, the ...View all