Along with technological advancement, humanity, with its human interactions and everything else enters deeper and deeper into the digital world, where physical existence of an individual is secondary and his identities of an algorithm and the conscious come to foreground. Screens we use to talk to each other are not us but our images constituted with pixels, that are rendered onscreen by an algorithm. Algorithms are an integral part of our lives. They give us recommendations, offer friends in social networks and suggest suitable partners for us.

 The project “Machine Whispering” is a collaboration between computer and human algorithms. Chosen by an artist, the first world that exists in manually generated data, created over time, is offered 3 predictive words by algorithm, after which human-based genetic algorithm (HBGA) enters the process. HBGA, as an algorithm, exists in a human, aidin him in the decision making process and in making choices.

 it is here that border between those two algorithms become obsolete, creating a poem, which is often sad and melancholic, a poem, which is crated by digitally converted algorithm together with an artist, and conscious identity of which is stressed by its poetical quality.

Text: Otosan Miminoshvili