Comments on: Two Computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park

By: tim

tim — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:47:43 +0000

Fair enough. When they are playing they are sitting ‘face to face’. This particular photo is really just to create a narrative or personality around the computers as if they might move around the park. It is a photo I really like. They look somehow old and introspective. Maybe i should upload a picture where they are playing face to face.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:43:42 +0000

It is on the Donaulände, Linz, Austria.

By: Hikaru

Hikaru — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:02:27 +0000

Where is this park?

By: Daveyne Totten

Daveyne Totten — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:19:36 +0000

When listening to the piece about this project on Spark, I envisioned the laptops facing each other at a table, and was surprised to see them sitting on a bench next to each other. Just curious about what led you to place them side by side.

By: Spark 110 – April 18 & 20, 2010 | Spark | CBC Radio

Spark 110 – April 18 & 20, 2010 | Spark | CBC Radio — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:38:15 +0000

[...] Tim Devine created Two Computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park [...]

By: tim

tim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Yeah we thought about it. It is tuned to the timbre of the computer voice so if the input is different they will not make moves, instead they start to heckle the people in the space if they are being too loud.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:46:19 +0000

can you cover the speakers of one and speak a fake more and trick the other one?

By: Thomasito

Thomasito — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:52:20 +0000

Who won Mr. Antiglare or Ms Glossy?

By: heiko

heiko — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:41:52 +0000

that’s a cool concept. also quite like the photograph itself. nicely composed. man, that new macbook pro unibody screen is gloss central. would almost be nice to make the chess visuals a bit more visible.