The Murmur of the Dying
Femke Herregraven, 2023, NL, DCP, 11'
The central character is an artificial intelligence called Elaine. AI learns language-based communication by interpreting language as code, and by filtering out noise. Sounds like sighs, gasps or “mmm” vocalisations are categorised as noise and omitted from translation into code. Pure speech/ words is what remains. The video also consists of thousands of medical images that were used to train medical AI’s with the purpose of developing a medical eye. How do we teach the machine what human speech and what the body is?



