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This is the website of io 0.0.1 beta++ and the performance Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010) which takes place on May 26, 2010. This site currently documents the construction of io 0.0.1 beta++ by myself (Han-earl Park), and includes engineer’s repots on hardware and software, with occasional forays into theory.

io 0.0.1 beta++

io 0.0.1 beta++ (henceforth io++) is an interactive, semi-autonomous technological artifact that, in partnership with its human associates, performs a deliberately amplified staging of a socio-technical network—a network in which the primary protocol is improvisation. Together we explore the performance of identities, hybrids and relationships, and highlight, in particular, the social agency of artifacts, and the social dimension of improvisation. io++ is a descendant and significant re-construction of io 0.0.1 beta, and io++ builds upon the work done with, and address some of the musical and practical problems of, this previous improvising machine.

Further information is available on the archived old site and my article, ‘In Conversation with an Automaton: Identities and Agency in a Heterogeneous Social and Musical Network’ [PDF], published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

This construction project has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.