ESSAYER(2010)

The project “Essayer” – ‘to try’ in french – is an installation entirely produced for the “Why you laughed ?” exhibition. After a deep process of grammatico-algorithmic analysis of jokes, we produce an engine able to create and tell out loud jokes based on scheme and words that we teached to it. The piece is presented as an installation. The humanisation and the context of an ended party depict a pathetic and lonely picture. The computer is telling out jokes over and over with a synthetic voice, trying to be funny.

The engine is no also on the interweb as a web piece but also as a big media social media player on Twitter you have to count with. @robertessayer is now engeneered to tweet a compute-generated every 00:00 GMT and 12:00 GMT.

RESSOURCES :

• Laugh sometimes on http://noussommesquatrevingt.com/ESSAYER
• Follow @robertessayer on Twitter.
• Read a deeper analysis on this Lipsumarium article (in french).
• We release the engine under creative commons. download essayer.zip.

HAVE BEEN SEEN IN :

• Indekeuken, “Pourquoi tu ris ?“, Bruxelles, Belgium, July 2011