handling errors
sound, digital image
01:44 min
2018
handling errors uses error-handling vocabulary from several programming languages, translated into spoken dialogue. the work consists of audio recordings in which two people attempt to communicate using only these words – terms designed to anticipate, detect, and resolve mistakes in code.
the project originates from lyle's first programming class, where she encountered the concept of "error handling," a function intended to prevent programs from crashing. in this system, language can never fail. but what does it mean for a language to allow no errors or no space for misinterpretation, contradiction, or feeling?
by imposing this vocabulary onto human speech, the work collapses the distance between machine logic and human communication, reintroduces human uncertainty, and reclaims error as a form of meaning.
artist: kimberly lyle
kimberly lyle is an artist and educator based in atlanta, ga. she works with digital fabrication, physical computing, sound, and craft to explore how the values embedded in our technologies shape our relationships with each other and the natural environment. her interactive sculptures and installations question dominant systems and invite embodied ways of knowing.
she received an mfa in expanded arts from arizona state university and a ba in psychology. currently, kimberly is an assistant professor of sculpture and technology at the university of georgia
handling errors
sound, digital image
01:44 min
2018
handling errors uses error-handling vocabulary from several programming languages, translated into spoken dialogue. the work consists of audio recordings in which two people attempt to communicate using only these words – terms designed to anticipate, detect, and resolve mistakes in code.
the project originates from lyle's first programming class, where she encountered the concept of "error handling," a function intended to prevent programs from crashing. in this system, language can never fail. but what does it mean for a language to allow no errors or no space for misinterpretation, contradiction, or feeling?
by imposing this vocabulary onto human speech, the work collapses the distance between machine logic and human communication, reintroduces human uncertainty, and reclaims error as a form of meaning.
artist: kimberly lyle
kimberly lyle is an artist and educator based in atlanta, ga. she works with digital fabrication, physical computing, sound, and craft to explore how the values embedded in our technologies shape our relationships with each other and the natural environment. her interactive sculptures and installations question dominant systems and invite embodied ways of knowing.
she received an mfa in expanded arts from arizona state university and a ba in psychology. currently, kimberly is an assistant professor of sculpture and technology at the university of georgia