Harry Yeff (Reeps100)
Harry Yeff (aka Reeps100) is a London-born neurodivergent artist and technologist specializing in voice, AI, and tech-based performance art, where his work explores the visualization of the voice and a new wave of voice-focused experimentation. He has lectured on creativity and innovation at venues including Google Exec, Davos, the United Nations, SXSW, Art Basel Hong Kong, Glastonbury Pyramid Stage, and Nike Global.
Trung Bao
Trung Bao is a multidisciplinary Vietnamese artist and vocal experimentalist working at the dynamic crossroads of technology and art, where his work intertwines sound with imagery. He is the founder of Fustic. Studio, an acclaimed Hanoi-based creative studio.
Nancy Baker Cahill
Nancy Baker Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body through ecological thinking. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting civics and a desire for more equitable futures.
Digital Work
CORPUS VOICE GEM
Res Code : 36 x 64 x 96 Hz
CORPUS is a human, machine, flora, and micro-biome symborg in the form of a towering Augmented Reality sculpture by the artist Nancy Baker Cahill. The symborg—a chimerical human-machine figure—spans biological and digital realms of life, pulsing with organic and inorganic elements. The VOICE GEM renders CORPUS’s heartbeat as a digital sculpture. Cahill combined heartbeats of fetal, human, whale, cosmos (a recording of black holes colliding) to create a synthesized heartbeat befitting of the chimerical symborg. CORPUS’s deep, low and consistent resonances found within the voice-data generated a flurry of natural greens in the VOICE GEM.
The VOICE GEMS project by Reeps100 (Harry Yeff) and Trung Bao uses a bespoke generative computational system to translate audial voices into visual works of art. The VOICE GEMS are colorful, digital sculptures that sparkle and shine, accompanied by the speaker’s recorded voice. The project proposes that VOICE GEMS—synesthetic objects combining visual and sonic information, generated through human-machine collaborations—express new ways of being in the world by giving form to voice. To make each Gem, Yeff and Bao deploy AI systems to compose roughly 200,000 data points. Those data points determine the placement and color of each particle you see in the digital sculpture. Yeff likens voices to fingerprints. “Each one is genetically coded, so every human and non-human voice on Earth would produce a unique VOICE GEM,” he says. “Each voice is a special instrument with an idiosyncratic shape. By using generative computer systems, we come to understand sounds’ shapes through pattern-making that go beyond human creativity alone. These systems reveal the cross-modal nature of a voice, helping us meet an essential part of our being.” Moving between materials, Yeff and Bao’s project is one of transduction—the process of converting signals across media.
The collaboration between Yeff and Cahill, a polyvocal mash-up of multifarious beings and technologies, further celebrates transduction as a method to perceive our world in new ways.