Quand la parole se mêle à des objets qui se mêlent à l’argile qui se mêle à la machine brings together texts co-written by seven elderly people and a generative AI text generator that they trained with their words while touching clay.
This publishing project took place at the Furtado Heine nursing home through a series of workshops. It is part of the practice-based PhD L'IA en fin de vie (AI at the end of life) carried out at the ArTeC University Research School, supervised by Arnaud Regnauld, Professor of American Literature and Translation at Paris 8 University, and Laurence Devillers, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at Paris-Saclay University. The workshops were supervised by Gabriela Patino-Lakatos, a clinical psychologist affiliated with Paris 8 University.
With Danielle Pennec, Clarté de Lune, Marie Anselmi, Espérance, Alexis Balmain, Patricia Chebardy, Anne-Marie P., GPT-3, and the assistance of Judith Deschamps.
Printed at Haute Ecole d'Arts et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, this book was produced with the help of the graphic and editorial support of Guilhem Prat with the collaboration of Éloïse Vo.