Hugo Liu & Paulo Urbano (2007). From programming the unconscious to aesthetic technologies. Interview, Nada 9, Portugal.
Liu, H., & Urbano, P. (2007). From programming the unconscious to aesthetic technologies. Nada, (9).
@article{liu2007from,
author = {Hugo Liu and Paulo Urbano},
title = {From programming the unconscious to aesthetic technologies},
journal = {Nada},
number = {9},
note = {Interview, Portugal},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/Nada9-Interview-Portuguese.pdf},
year = {2007}
}This Portuguese-language interview explains the human purpose behind Aesthetiscope, Taste Fabric, and the broader idea of computational aesthetics. Aesthetiscope combines several modes of reading—thought, feeling, sensation, intuition, and cultural association—to render words or poems as abstract fields of color. Taste Fabric learns relationships among interests from large collections of social-network profiles. The interview distinguishes factual common sense from experiential common sensibility: knowledge of how life feels from different perspectives. It also marks firm boundaries. Aesthetiscope must be given a personality setting rather than discovering one, and superficial emotional display should not be confused with genuine machine feeling. The lasting proposal is for technologies that help people encounter more perspectives and cultivate happiness and beauty as capacities.