Ian Hatcher

“Colony” features Ian Hatcher as a chat-bot deconstructing a technocratic utopia through algorithmic poetry

We are happy to announce the first release in our new established ‘Sound Writings’ series: Drone Pilot by writer, sound artist, and programmer Ian Hatcher (*1983). His work explores cognition in the context of digital systems. While studying Digital Language Arts at Brown University, he came up with his own propositions in this field: the way he trained his own voice, prosody and word-flow to mimick the qualities and even glitches of speech-synthesis is extremely suitable for a realization in so…