Ars Electronica Garden Paros

Random Rhetoric

Random Rhetoric acts as a metaphor of the Epicurean garden, a dynamic place where logos, speech and dialectics are remodeled through machines. A digital environment serves as the main platform where interactive code-based works like “The Oratory Machine” (a computer programmed in AppleScript) participate in a philosophical dialogue with the public, remodeling the art of rhetoric by, in some cases, the pretense of intelligent dialogue.