ACQUA CORPOREA
Amor Muñoz
An artificial body contains a sample from the Santa Catarina River, a body of water that crosses the city of Monterrey and is considered the backbone of the area. Using a drip system, this living piece of the river gets its voice. Each drop is a word that is woven with others to speculate on possible futures.
On the other hand, several bodies of water in resistance are spoken in languages generated by artificial intelligence, this is achieved by activating the textile interfaces that surround the central sculpture. The language of water was a speculation at first.
By using Machine Learning, a timbre transfer process was carried out, in which any pronounced word, in this case the name of a river or lake, is transformed into sounds of water. Another exercise was to create a hidden language of water, from spectrograms obtained from different sounds from bodies of water, the machine receives a sample, interprets and makes up a series of strange words that only an AI could pronounce.
Amor Muñoz (Mexico) has worked with crafts and experimental electronics for a decade, specifically with electronic textiles, changing hard circuits for soft circuits, transforming the rigid language of engineering into a soft, tactile and flexible language. This connection between technology and craftsmanship has led her to develop several lines of work and research. The first deals with work and technodiversity, generating a series of social and participatory projects. Another line of work is Poetic Coding in which she seeks to connect nodes such as text, textile, code and language, bringing zeros and ones, the language of computers, to the realm of poetics. And the third line of research seeks to relate biology with technology and crafts to create a series of pieces that speculate about futures and posthumanist ideas.