10/12/2022
Varia, Gouwstraat 3, 3082 BA Rotterdam
12.00 – 17.00 (CET) including lunch break
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Artists: Jonathan Chiam Reus & Angeliki Diakrousi
In this workshop we will explore ancestral cosmology through the figure of the clone in artificial voice technologies. The workshop will experiment with artistic approaches to future and past-oriented dialogues using voice avatars of ourselves and others, considering the implications of creating a clone that may speak to generations beyond our own lifetime and say things we have never said.
Everyone attending the workshop will be asked to consider their own relationship to an open-ended conception of ancestry, relating to the ideas and actions of those having lived and those yet to be. These reflections will take form through a series of small artistic contributions developed through the workshop. The artistic contributions are part of a process of collaboratively building datasets which are used to train the machine learning models of the artificial BroadCaster in the year-long radio broadcast >>In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit<< ( ahnen.in ) whose voices are shaped by learning the nuances of human and non-human recorded utterances.
The workshop will be led by Jonathan Chaim Reus in collaboration with Angeliki Diakrousi from Varia, a collective infrastructure who have been developing artistic approaches for reading, annotating, speaking and listening together across different open source softwares.