In this paper, we follow up on the recently emerged idea of “computational strangeness,” which represents algorithmic recommendations as artistic obstructions in creative work. The concept of “strangeness” stems from a process of user engagement in the context of a collaboration between Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Music Information Retrieval (MIR), in which professional makers of Elect...

Theoretical, psychoanalytical constructs referring to the unconscious, the superego, and id, enjoy an autonomy within the I. As such, this study contemplates the discussion of these foreign entities that inhabit the interior of the I, producing an effect of foreignness. In the first section, I will develop a reflection on the state of foreignness of the unconscious. I will begin with an analogy...