UMBC Translation/DH Working Groups talk with Craig Saper, May 4 2016

1. Machines, modalities,
translations, bots
• Follow the bots:
• @mashomatic
• @acoluthon
• @ElectricBarthes

2. Our machines are talking back
“… we’re entering a time when sound, light and movement are
equally important parts of the creative palette. Everyday objects
whose expressive elements have long been static will now glow,
sing, vibrate and change position at the drop of a hat.”
(NYT, Carla Diana, “Talking, Walking Objects,” Jan. 26 2013.)

3. Translating the physical world

4. MashBOT

5. Machine Love
• No technical object, it is true, will be enamored of the
engineer that whispers sweet nothings into its sockets; to
solicit its assistance is, however to do right by it and respect its
protocols. What is called technical proficiency is a human
actant's mastery of such protocols—surely a kind of human-
nonhuman love, premised on the human's deep respect for
the nonhuman's constraints and demands.
• - Kyle McGee, writing on Latour’s Aramis

6. A Turing Machine (sort of).
Artist’s model of a “Turing machine,” Mike Davey

7. We need more tape.

8. Anna Coluthon

9. Anna Coluthon

10. Electric Barthes Flarf Scarf

11. Lilypad

12. Voice of the Shuttle

13. Capture

14. A translation of the world
“Cyborg politics is the
struggle for language and
the struggle against perfect
communication, against the
one code that translates all
meaning perfectly.”
-- Donna Haraway