An AI Workshop by Sahej Rahal
Supported by the Shared Ecologies program from Shyama Foundation
In Echo-maker (WIP), suspended shells form an aerial labyrinth. Some of these levitating forms whisper. As one whispers back, a responsive voice offers. If challenged, it retorts in kind. If it is chided, it chides back. What transpires when words reverberate back? A sense of vertigo envelops. Does the final response genuinely satisfy, or does it lead to another layer of dizziness? What exactly is one left with – as one prompts in anticipation of an echo? If Plato’s cave delved into an allegory of light and shadows, what would an allegory of echoes reveal?
‘The best is in that “wishful” space between the wishful and wishful that wishful can be fulfilled; but only a little bit of wishful. It is in that space that the wishful feed upon the wishful. The wishful feed upon the wishful, and the wishful feed upon the wishful, and the wishful continue to feed on the wishful and feed on the wishful. And then it is that there is a fulfilment, and it is a little bit, and it is the smallest wishful, the smallest wishful that can be fulfilled. The wishful feed upon the wishful’. – Text generated with TextSynth
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Pahul Singh
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OblivionBurn Productions
Pahul Singh
Video: Screen Recording From RealAI
OblivionBurn Productions
Pahul Singh
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