Mikkel Rørbo
Mikkel Rørbo is an interdisciplinary researcher and, sometimes, artist and curator. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures and holds degrees in philosophy and cultural studies from University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the philosophical dimensions of living with machine intelligences and speculative methods for critical engagement with emerging technologies. As an artist and curator, he has performed, released and exhibited internationally as well as collaborated with institutions, festivals and art spaces. He has written about and presented work on technology, philosophy and contemporary experiments in music.
Contact
Office Hours: by Appointment
Email: mikkel.rorbo[at]uni-ak.ac.at
Showroom: Mikkel Rørbo
- title
- Denial Sage
- type
- Conference Paper
- keywords
- Artificial Intelligence, Posthumanism, Sound Art, Hauntology, Data
- texts
- Abstract
- Denial Sage is a sound art piece, which speculatively engages with history, bias and conflict through the mediated perception of machine intelligence. It creates this abstract fiction to examine non-human cognition, to create a stranger with which to confront us with a flattened past and to let the vagar- ies and specters of its perception haunt us. The audio material of Denial Sage was created by a generative machine learning model trained on highly bi- ased datasets comprised of .wav files from such sources as conflict report- ing and emergency service scanner recordings, which were post-processed and shaped into a multi-channel pseudo-generative installation. While the sounds are often divorced from familiarity, glimpses of something eerily known does come through, questioning what pasts form our future, when even algorithms can hear it.
- authors
- Mikkel Rørbo
- editors
- Miguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
- publishers
- i2ADS
- date
- 2024
- location
- Porto, PO, Portugal
- ISBN/ISSN/ISMN
- 978-989-9049-73-4
- DOI
- 10.34626/2024_xcoax_035
- URL
- https://2024.xcoax.org/pdf/rorbo.pdf
- published in
- title
- xCoAx 2024
- subtitle
- 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
- publishers
- i2ADS
- pages
- 372-376
- contributors
- Mikkel Rørbo
- Lecturer, Text Contribution, Artist
- language
- English
