What happens when your voice no longer belongs to you? Where do you end, and the other begins? And who holds the authorship over your thoughts?

Company is a performative audio-play experience for a single participant. The audio play is generated ad hoc from a voice clone and based on a childhood memory of the individual visitor. In a small, cave-like black box, you lie completely in the dark and listen to your own voice gradually overwriting your memory.

Company explores the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, inviting participants into an intimate echo chamber where these lines blur and shift. A ghostly encounter that raises questions on identity, agency, and AI ethics.

This performance prototype emerges from Rebekka’s experiences as an artist experimenting with the AI toolkit and the challenges she faced within this experience. Is the artist working for the tool, or is the tool serving the artist? Who nourishes whom in this relationship? And how do we face the dilemmas that arise between ethical concerns and technical possibilities?

​

Concept and realization: Rebekka Bangerter

Advise: Maaike Bleeker

​

On invitation of Innovation Lab Utrecht