MOMENTARY ZINE

By Hackers & Designers (NI) 2015

An open publishing station using speech recognition technology.

Momentary Zine experiments with the possibilities of producing a publication instantly – using an interactive publishing tool.

How does it work? You speak. It prints! With the help of speech-to-text technology, the tool translates spoken word to text. Simultaneously an algorithm runs an automated image search, querying the spoken words and adding the images accordingly. The outcome: A printed publication!

Bring your curiosity to automated editorial processes and DIY zine production!

EXHIBITOR BIOGRAPHY

Hackers & Designers (H&D) is an initiative investigating the ways in which tools and technologies are constructed. Touching, soldering, breaking apart, and deploying code are means of acquiring new knowledge and skills but also confronting assumptions of dominant technological constructions and questioning proprietary software, closed systems and their societal implications. H&D have created a series of projects, workshops, symposiums and publications that explore topics such as ‘smart’ technology, Peer-2-Peer networks, ubiquitous computing, biometric data, and more generally the agency of user and citizenship.