THE AGREEMENT

The agreement
The agreement, Emrooz Gallery, 2015
The agreement
Infoography of the performance, 2015

This sound installation took place on July 30, 2015. The idea was to use speech-to-text and text-to-speech software, which at the time had poor performance, many bugs, and had not been developed much. The original recording occurred in an off-screen space where two computers faced each other. The first computer read the text (the text of the preface of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 countries), while the second computer typed the text; however, due to the presence of bugs, the typed text differed. After the end of the text, their positions were reversed, and the second text was read, which again created a third text. This process was repeated, and as the original text was gradually analyzed, many words changed, and even the punctuation was gradually lost, causing the software to continuously read the text without any pause. Since this software was mostly designed based on economic patterns at that time, most of the predicted words were financial terms that replaced the original words. The text gradually became more meaningless and ambiguous until, finally, the concepts and syntactic structures were completely lost.

The agreement
The generative texts by software.
The agreement