Intext: Voice Transaction
STANDING PINE Tokyo is pleased to present intext鈥檚 solo exhibition 鈥榁oice Transaction鈥�.
As global communication through AI and automated translation expands, messages become detached from their original intent and start to take on different connotations, are misunderstood and become consumed. This exhibition explores the implications of this phenomenon.
The installation is based on Orson Welles' classic film 鈥機itizen Kane鈥� and focuses on a scene in which newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane and his second wife, opera singer Susan Alexander, are conversing. In this scene, the two are inside a tent while traveling, expressing their emotions and arguing. However, in this installation, the film鈥檚 subtitles and stage props have been altered to feature the logotypes of NASDAQ-listed companies and stock market index information, while the video and audio undergo retranslation through generative AI.
The transformation of the film depicting a businessman at the mercy of capitalism鈥攖hrough images and technologies that symbolise modern global capitalism鈥攄isrupts its original narrative. At the same time, this alteration recontextualises the film in the present, allowing viewers to envision new interpretations.
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STANDING PINE Tokyo is pleased to present intext鈥檚 solo exhibition 鈥榁oice Transaction鈥�.
As global communication through AI and automated translation expands, messages become detached from their original intent and start to take on different connotations, are misunderstood and become consumed. This exhibition explores the implications of this phenomenon.
The installation is based on Orson Welles' classic film 鈥機itizen Kane鈥� and focuses on a scene in which newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane and his second wife, opera singer Susan Alexander, are conversing. In this scene, the two are inside a tent while traveling, expressing their emotions and arguing. However, in this installation, the film鈥檚 subtitles and stage props have been altered to feature the logotypes of NASDAQ-listed companies and stock market index information, while the video and audio undergo retranslation through generative AI.
The transformation of the film depicting a businessman at the mercy of capitalism鈥攖hrough images and technologies that symbolise modern global capitalism鈥攄isrupts its original narrative. At the same time, this alteration recontextualises the film in the present, allowing viewers to envision new interpretations.
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