Synopsis
Script Miner poses the most unsettling question in AI in thirty seconds.
Who wrote this script?
The installation renders physical, personal, and irrefutable a question that theory has circled for decades: the death of the author, ownership of the work, algorithmic creativity. The visitor is simultaneously author, spectator, and subject.
Entirely offline, no data transmitted. What distinguishes Script Miner from a technological demonstration is the ritual: picking up the handset, speaking, waiting, listening to the printer, tearing the ticket — each gesture is the physical translation of an algorithmic operation.
Technical Setup
- Vintage telephone handset + Raspberry Pi 4
- Offline speech recognition (Vosk)
- On-device LLM for script generation
- 58mm thermal printer — receipt taken away by visitor
- Entirely offline — no cloud, no external transmission
- Footprint: ~2 m² · Transport: 1 flight case
- Setup: 3–4 hours, no dedicated technician
- Power: 1 standard 220V outlet
- Autonomous operation
Audience
All audiences · Adults · Literature/arts/film students · Cultural professionals · Digital art festivals, libraries, Nuit Blanche, AI innovation and ethics conferences
Credits
Artist: Kamel Ghabte · Production: Studio Kamel Ghabte · SIRET 489 325 308 00026
Dual package available: Script Miner + Word Broker — comprehensive language/value/machine programme.
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