David Rokeby
Born in 1960, in Tillsonburg, ON, Canada
Lives and work in Toronto, ON, Canada
Voice Scroll
2021-2024
BIO
David Rokeby is a Toronto-based artist who works with a variety of digital media to critically explore the impacts these media are having on contemporary human lives. He has exhibited and lectured extensively internationally and has received numerous international awards, including a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2002), a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art (2002), and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts “BAFTA” award in Interactive art (2000). He is currently the director of the BMO Lab at the University of Toronto.
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Interactive installation. Voice recognition system, text-to-image generator, microphone, projection, interaction palette. Variable dimensions.
Voice Scroll is a real-time voice-to-panoramic image generator. Live speech is translated into an unfolding panorama in real-time. It can be used either as a public interactive installation or in real-time performance. It is an example of BMO Lab’s experiments in using machine learning systems in real-time performance environments and of their mission to create experiential situations where one can intuitively prod, poke, and probe machine learning systems.