I randomly love you / hate you

Still from the exhibition, "exonemo UN-DEAD-LINK"
Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum 
Photo: MARUO Ryuichi

This work shows a conversation on a messaging app, an endless exchange of the sentences: “I [adverb] love you” and “I [adverb] hate you.” The adverbs are selected randomly from 300 or so options, and some of the generated expressions barely make enough sense, while others result in uncommon or awkward wording. The monitors are set up such that its interlocutors express the opposite emotions to the interlocutors on the corresponding side of the other monitor. The work shows up the contrast between the strong human emotions represented by the words “love” and “hate,” and the impersonal processes by which machines process that information.

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