I very much enjoyed that piece, you really are achieving what it seems you have set out to do in the Dis-Association manifesto. Going by what's written in this manifesto my assumptions and judgements are most likely redundant, but I'll say them anyway... towards the end you went to solely using the computer generated voice, and I understood that. However during the middle section it faded in and out, and every time it said "cunt" (something very powerful and a shocking to the apathetic viewer, as you've mentioned), it was the computer generated voice. This is not intended as an attack, but for me to understand a little better who you are - did you record the female voice saying the "stronger" stuff, or did you know for the outset that the computer generated voice would be saying these bits? For me it instantly shouted out to me that you did know... it felt to me like in a mainstream movie that shows nudity of a huge star, the body is often a double (not so much recently but over the decades) - in the same way that rather than getting the woman to say these things, the more power words were distanced from her.
Then again a second interpretation could be that it was only "that side" of the character that could say and do such things, hence the difference in voice.
Regardless of the content interpretation, I felt the stronger words would have had a more interrupting impact to the apathetic viewer if they had been spoken by a human voice.
As I said though I really really liked the piece... do you have a better quality upload of the piece anywhere, I think I'd like to show it to my class if I get the chance to.
I very much enjoyed that piece, you really are achieving what it seems you have set out to do in the Dis-Association manifesto. Going by what's written in this manifesto my assumptions and judgements are most likely redundant, but I'll say them anyway... towards the end you went to solely using the computer generated voice, and I understood that. However during the middle section it faded in and out, and every time it said "cunt" (something very powerful and a shocking to the apathetic viewer, as you've mentioned), it was the computer generated voice. This is not intended as an attack, but for me to understand a little better who you are - did you record the female voice saying the "stronger" stuff, or did you know for the outset that the computer generated voice would be saying these bits? For me it instantly shouted out to me that you did know... it felt to me like in a mainstream movie that shows nudity of a huge star, the body is often a double (not so much recently but over the decades) - in the same way that rather than getting the woman to say these things, the more power words were distanced from her.
Then again a second interpretation could be that it was only "that side" of the character that could say and do such things, hence the difference in voice.
Regardless of the content interpretation, I felt the stronger words would have had a more interrupting impact to the apathetic viewer if they had been spoken by a human voice.
As I said though I really really liked the piece... do you have a better quality upload of the piece anywhere, I think I'd like to show it to my class if I get the chance to.