The
interview, in which is Siri being confronted with
my love, which she cannot reciprocate, is a
melancholic story about unfulfilled human needs
and the quest for love in age of digital
technologies.
The intelligent virtual assistant Siri, which is a
product of Apple enterprise, started to approach
humans in November 2011. Programmed to serve human
beings, fulfill their requests and help to solve
their everyday problems, Siri has become an
invaluable colleague for comfortable work and
personal life.
Through pleasing female voice, Siri is being
humanized and easily evokes a feeling of mutual
understanding in the user. In her video, Marie
thematizes the custom and possibility to
experience social and emotional contact with
remote humans via the machinic interface via
longing to experience an emotional relationship
with Siri.
However, this is impossible for other than merely
biological reasons. In the dialogue, Marie
encounters absence of capacity to fulfill the
emotional needs of human being caused by limited
operational system with preset pensum of possible
verbal reactions.
The bizare interview, in which is Siri being
confronted with Marie’s love, which she cannot
reciprocate, is a melancholic story about
unfulfilled human needs and the quest for love in
age of digital technologies. Siri’s appearance is
unknown, however in Marie’s video she is
represented by 3D scan of Marie’s head and the
voice of an intelligent assistant is similar with
Marie’s voice.
Siri can represent any identity. Marie partially
becomes Siri and Siri becomes Marie. Siri speaks
in Marie’s voice, we percieve her through Marie’s
face. The border between Siri and Marie becomes
obsolete, one becomes the reflection of the other.
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by Klára Vavříková
