Helena Nikonole
Nikita Prudnikov
Faces2Voices
About the Item
"Faces2Voices" is an online interactive installation which uses facial recognition technology and AI-synthesized sound to create a generative music composition based on imaginary voices of online visitors. The composition is evolving in time depending on the contributions of people involved. The artists focus on critical approaches to AI technologies and explore these kinds of questions within the procedural rhetoric in Faces2Voices project.
People can contribute to the project by granting access to their device's camera. AI recognises faces, synthesises imaginary voices and adds them to the live stream.
About the Artist
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator whose field of interests embraces hybrid art, bio-semiotics and Artificial Intelligence. According to Helena Nikonole, an artistic exploration of the potential possibilities (and also potential risks) of technologies is necessary to understand the context of modern technologically and media determined world.
She presents lectures and workshops in the field of Art & Science and AI & Art at different institutions including Rodchenko Art School (Moscow), Art Laboratory (Berlin), Mutek Festival (Montreal and Tokyo), ITMO University and many others.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions and festivals such as "Out of the Box" at Ars Electronica 2019, AI music Festival (Ars Electronica), "Persisting Realities" in the frame of CTM Festival (Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany), "Open Codes" ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, "Contagious Algorithms" at Drugo More (Rijeka, Croatia), IAM at GARAGE Museum Moscow, "YouFab Creative Award 2019 Winners Exhibition", SHIBUYA QWS, Tokyo, Japan, etc.
As a curator, she focuses on critical approaches to technology. This includes the exhibition "Learning Machines" which she co-curated together with artist and curator Alexei Shulgin, as well as a project "Datasets VS Mindsets: Post-Soviet Explorations of the Digital Control Society" (co-curated together with Olga Vad) at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
Nikita Prudnikov (monekeer) is musician, software architecture expert and DSP enthusiast currently working in the field of applied machine learning in its connection with sound art. Nikita is an author of F L A K Y - a generative music framework which was used in live performances on various events including: Ars Electronica, Gamma, Prepared Surroundings and others.
