study guide (speech to text mis-recognition and vice versa), 2017

Created as a comissioned piece responding to a museum artifact (the antique school desk/chair), the project leans on the pedagogical reference of the object in order to examine the close relationship between knowledge, vision, taxonomies, interfaces, and databases. Following the writings of scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, James Gleick, Michel Foucault, and Alex Galloway, the project emphasizes the link between the production and consumption of knowledge through vision, and the emergence of subsequent phenomena such as logic, rationality, reason, and the organization of knowledge through categories, taxonomies, and contemporary digital interfaces. The project implicates the viewer through the pedagogical invitation and complicates the configuration through the introduction of a sonic epistemology, which at once supplements and evades complicity with the visual register.

documentation - Richmond 2017