If you don’t speak will anyone see you? Do surveillance technologies modify the way we speak or think about ourselves in public? What happens if we can see conversation dynamics? Will it change the conversation? This work, titled Finding Your Voice, explores these questions.
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If you don’t speak will anyone see you? Do surveillance technologies modify the way we speak or think about ourselves in public? What happens if we can see conversation dynamics? Will it change the conversation? This work, titled Finding Your Voice, explores these questions.
A viewer of this interactive work first sees on the display a video representation of what the display’s camera sees of the room—but without the viewer in it. Not until the viewer speaks, or makes sound another way, do they appear within the image, fading in and out. The quality of their representation is based on the character of their speech. In other words, how you speak affects how you are seen. Follow the link below to view a video demonstration of the work.
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- Year Created: 2011
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Mar 20th, 2011
- Original Url: http://bengrosser.com/projects/finding-your-voice/
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Work Credits:
- ben grosser, sole creator
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Artist Statement
I am interested in the unseen ways that technologies change our experience of the world. I use these same technologies as a primary medium to create works that both reveal and examine those changes. Does computer-mediated vision change how we see without computers? Do surveillance technologies modify the way we speak in public? Has "reality" media altered non-mediated reality? My works use interaction to construct an experience that encourages personal consideration of these kinds of questions.
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