Rita.py
Interactive Installation
2018
The video is not the piece, it is only an installation demo with a nonsense random dialog.
I programmed a virtual assistant with the help of my boyfriend and placed a computer with the code running under the altar.
Rita.py is an interactive simulation of an altar. The spectator is invited to kneel in front of a Goddess, embodied by a tilapia steak from the supermarket, and ask questions, which are heard and answered by a robotic female voice that emanates from the altar allowing the spectator to have conversations with her.
Rita is Goddess and virtual assistant. Her responses are based on the Barnum effect, a psychological formula commonly used by fortune tellers and horoscopes to have relative success on the ambiguous answers they provide.
este video no constituye la obra, es solo un demo de la instalación. No busco decir nada con el dialogo.
Programé una asistente virtual en python gon la ayuda de mi Pololo de ese entonces. Hay un computador con el código corriendo abajo del altar.
Rita.py es una simulación interactiva de un altar a un culto pseudo-cristiano. El espectador debe arrodillarse frente a la diosa y hacerle una pregunta para que esta le conteste. Como una asistente virtual, Rita.py escucha y responde a tus preguntas con su voz robótica.
Las respuestas se basan en el efecto barnum, una fórmula sicológica empleada por adivinos, horoscopos y tests de personalidad para siempre ser relativamente coherentes.