Spoken Panorama

Spoken Panorama is a discourse mapping project between performance and installation. Throughout the festival, Cem will record the talks of the public program and produce a semantic map of each discussion. Using software he developed, each discussion is broken into short statements and mapped in a 1024-dimensional semantic space. Reading the statements across these dimensions, the program draws connections between meanings rather than just words, revealing patterns in the conversation that are otherwise hard to locate. The maps will be printed as a series of posters and exhibited at Fondazione Galleria Milano as the festival unfolds. On the last day, Cem A., together with anthropologists Rita Duina and Tommaso Santagostino, will reflect on the maps and the discourse produced during the festival.