In collaboration with Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet, Deborah Levy, Antoine Wang / with the support of Constant VZW / The code and sound files of LATOS: Talking Network are available on my Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/lionelmaes/latos-talking-network

For each agent: 1. connect to the network | 2. search for peers on the network / respond to the search for peers of other agents | 3. define the willingness to become a clock | 4. ask each agent on the network for its willingness to become a clock / respond to each request of other agents | 5. for each answer of each agent define the will to accept it as a clock | 6. estimate which is the agent whose will to become a clock is positive and which has the most agents accepting it as a clock (if there is no majority, start again at 3) | 7. for the clock: give the time / for the others: receive the time | 8. for the clock: define a performance start time (calculated according to the current time and a delay between 1 and 3 minutes) and a performance end time / for the others: receive the performance start time and the performance end time | 9. define a sound phrase composed of 2 to 4 syllables randomly chosen from a list of 36 syllables, either short or long repeated between 1 to 10 times) | 10. at the performance start time, repeat the sound phrase | 11. at the performance end time, return to 3.

LATOS: Talking Network is an installation featuring several identical machines, the agents of the network. Each agent consists of a single-board computer connected to a speaker, mounted on metal branches. When the computer within an agent is turned on, it performs the performance described above in a loop.

LATOS: Talking Network | Constant vzw Brussels (2022)

LATOS: Talking Network | Constant vzw Brussels (2021)

LATOS: Talking Network | Constant vzw Brussels (2021)

LATOS: Talking Network | Constant vzw Brussels (2021)

Exhibition from September 24 to November 21, 2021 @ Constant
Rue du Fortstraat 5, 1060 Saint-Gilles | Sint-Gillis