13.06.2024
14:30 – 15:30
Mozilla Festival
Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
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This workshop, a collaboration between Jonathan Chaim Reus and Chae Young Kim, welcomes vocal artists, researchers, data scientists, policy makers – or just anyone with an interest in human voice(s) – to join us in reflecting on the value of the human voice within the current state of voice technologies. 

This workshop is an open invitation for all people who work with voice, in any way, to come together and collectively reflect on the meaning(s) of voice as it moves through different contexts, bodies, air and networks.

What can our voice(s) do? How do they travel and to whom do they connect us? How can our values around speaking, singing, shouting, being heard or being silent, being recorded or handling recordings, help to understand what is at stake with voice AI/data?

Together we will reflect on these questions from our own many perspectives and experiences, starting from each person’s individual relationship to voice(s), and try to map out how voices travel through the world and connect to others in their many possible forms – as sound, vibrations, electricity, data.Together we will reflect on what kinds of pathways for voice exist across bodies and technologies, and reflect on what we really need from voice technology from a values-focused perspective. We will collect and map out all of these wishes and reflections as a first step towards building a concept of Vocal Values for technology.