Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

ungulation writes "A joint project of SFMOMA, The Goethe-Institut, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Walker Art Center, a group called CrossFade broadcast the entire linux kernel 2.4.18. From the CrossFade website: "In Free Radio Linux, the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet. A speech synthesizer will convert into talk radio the 4,141,432 lines of code, which will take about 600 days to read." According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format."

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Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts

[Directrix1]

Go ahead, broadcast something that not only nobody wants to listen to, but make it something that will make most people think you are the dumbest idiot on the face of the earth. Art is not a catch-all phrase for stuff without meaning. Art is a creative work. Dumping uninteresting c and asm code through a text-to-speach does not make a person an artist, nor does it make the end result art. I hope somebody shoots this person before the first word of linux source is ever muttered. To have so little reason to live as to result to doing random, inane, pointless, and completely uninteresting things under the moniker of artwork is insanity. Although, one could say that randomness breeds art. Just look at the plethora of creative writing bred by this randomness. I think what we have here is an artistic seed, but not art in and of itself.