INOUT in dialogue with Universon by INOUT

Inout will interview Universon, an emerging multimedia artist who has been experimenting with various technologies, including artificial intelligence in recent years. Universon will describe the latest project "[S]", a virtual world in which one can live an alternative life and will talk about that world and how you can experience an other reality inside it thanks to the use of new technologies (virtual reality, etc ...). This work has been presented at EU4ART_differences Summer School "Digital Rites and Embodied Memories".

Research Tools

The main tools can be categorized in three main needs and purposes: video, audio and text.

For the first priority, the mains softwares that were used were Touchdesigner (for the face of our guest) and the NDI tools (for using the video created on TD as a webcam source for our interview made on Microsoft Teams).

The second need was the voice of our guest: we used some of the plugins inside Ableton to re-synthesize the voice of the actor; in the end, we prefered to use the original voice given its credibility.

For the text, the different models for the text generation (especially the GPT-J) were the main tools for the writing of our interview (those models were provided by NLPCLoud and the scripts were written and perfected on Google Colab).

The use of some specific hardware was mandatory (Dell Alienware with an Intel Core I7 CPU, 32GB of RAM and a GeForce RTX 3060 GB).

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