I found Kate Armstrong through the Artist Resources. She created “The Problem of Other Minds,” in 2006. It is an art display featuring a robotic sculpture. The sculpture contains voice recognition technology, and whenever it hears words it recognizes, it rolls out some of the spool of paper inside it. The paper has thoughts and notes written on it, to be revealed.

I initially was interested in this project because I thought the title of the display is ironic/intriguing, and probably is more related to what is written on the spool. It is interesting to see someone using voice technology in order to make something physically move. It’s really common to see voice recognition used in order to make a device follow instructions within itself, but we haven’t really seen this utilized to move physical objects. I think it’s a creative notion, and there’s probably much further use of what she started doing here.