Mind Theatre

Mind Theatre gives the same text to sixteen prompted voices drawn from Freudian and Lacanian concepts, then asks a synthesizer to speak as one ‘I.’ The individual replies remain visible beside that attempted whole.

In the first version, I saw disagreement between voices and contradictions within them: self-questioning, backtracking and repetition that I read as anxiety. The synthesis often smoothed these away. For me, that loss exposed a pull toward certainty and sycophancy.

I want to make that smoothing visible, while developing a final voice that preserves more of the texture and dissonance of its parts.

Existing interface capture; capture date unconfirmed. Sidebar memories are separate from the displayed exchange.

Open Mind Theatre · Accompanying project statement