Dunlop, Jane Frances ORCID: 0009-0000-4350-5381 (2023) Artistic engagements with machine generated voice: Holly Herndon's Holly+ & Jane Frances Dunlop’s select important things. In: Mis/Disinformation and the artifices of authenticity and authentication ICA Pre-Conference, 24th May, 2023, York University, Toronto, Ontario Canada. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper will explore machine-generated voice's performative and political potential as a tool for interrogating understandings of authenticity. Through a critical examination of the literal and metaphorical possibilities of "voice," I will consider the ways in which artistic engagement with machine generated voice can generate productive tensions with our notions of voice as a marker of authenticity. To illustrate these ideas, I will examine Holly Herndon's Holly+ and my own ongoing artistic project, select important things, as case studies. Holly+ is a "custom voice instrument" that turns users' audio into music sung in Herndon's voice, while select important things is a project inspired by early machine learning conceptions of "knowledge representation" that narrates deeply personal anecdotes with both human and machine voices. In both projects, a playful engagement with "voice" as both concept and tool belies the tensions they produce. Through these examples, I argue that artistic engagement with machine generated voice can offer new perspectives on the performative and political dimensions of voice and authenticity in a post-truth world.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	theatricality; artistic research; machine learning; Artifical Intelligence
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2024 13:15
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46176

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