Babi Badalov: Automatic Electronic Algorithmic Predictive Poetry, 2021

In the performance Automatic Electronic Predictive Poetry, Babi Badalov applies similar transformations, word games and misinterpretations of language, phonetics and translations as in his textile installations but within the digital context of the AI used by our daily companion: the mobile phone. Using more than five languages himself, Badalov’s phone has ‘learned’ a lot of vocabulary without really understanding while at the same time revealing hierarchies in how well languages are translated – and a quasi racist behaviour towards imperfect pronunciation. As such the performance becomes sort of a digital Dada experiment in absurdist poetry based on the confusion of human and technoid voices.