Das Vergerät / Boris Petrovsky (DE)
Photo showing Das Vergerät by Boris Petrovsky (DE) during the Cyber Arts Press Tour.
A collection of household appliances—for example, a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, electric toothbrush and
drill—are grouped together and connected to each other. These are machines that surround us and play
major roles in our everyday lives. The machines in this installation function, though in an unconventional
way. They register the messages and commands visitors speak into a microphone, translate them via speech
synthesis into their own idiom, and repeat them. In Das Vergerät (a German neologism meaning something
like “dis-appliance”) the machines articulate the visitors’ words in a vocabulary of electrical noises.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Das Vergerät / Boris Petrovsky (DE)
Photo showing Das Vergerät by Boris Petrovsky (DE) during the Cyber Arts Press Tour.
A collection of household appliances—for example, a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, electric toothbrush and
drill—are grouped together and connected to each other. These are machines that surround us and play
major roles in our everyday lives. The machines in this installation function, though in an unconventional
way. They register the messages and commands visitors speak into a microphone, translate them via speech
synthesis into their own idiom, and repeat them. In Das Vergerät (a German neologism meaning something
like “dis-appliance”) the machines articulate the visitors’ words in a vocabulary of electrical noises.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder