Trung Bao

New Media Artist • Creator of Voice Gems • Musician • #forbes30under30 • Founder of From Hanoi, Vietnam.

[Trung Bao @TBaoCreate]

Dear friends, we are proud to present the @aiww Voice Gem

The Ai WeiWei #1040 VOICE GEM was generated as a gift for Ai WeiWei by Alfred Weidinger the managing director of OÖ Landes-Kultur. The precious digital object was generated from a voice recording of Ai WeiWei.

[VOICE GEMS 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE @voicegemsarch]

VOICE GEMS in @faznet German papers today covering the concept as a whole.

[VOICE GEMS 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE @voicegemsarch]

Voice Gems showcased at the @Gagosian by Claire Webb of the Berggruen Institute. Discussing digital preservation and voice and data to form.

[VOICE GEMS 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE @voicegemsarch]

Voice generated prototype: solid silver 3D print, of laughter.

For over a year we have researched sister physical objects to our digital VOICE GEMS in the archive. We will not share with you too much at this stage, but here we present a prototype:

@Reeps1 x @TBaoCreate

[Harry Yeff @Reeps1]

So exciting to see our @voicegemsarch and @HerbertWFranke works being showcased by collectors. Thank you to collectors for the 454 works now out in the world.

[Shortstack @shortstack_dan]

GM - both from the late Herbert W. Franke, a pioneer of Generative Art. Upper - “Voice Gems Astropoeticon”. A poem written and read by Frank in 2007. The audio then turned into video via ‘voice centered generative art’. Lower - Math Art from Quantum. ⁦@HerbertWFranke⁩

[LoVid🫂📼 @lovidlovid]

collected this voice gem. a great reminder of my love of relics and translation of time and lived experiences into peculiar objects.

[Trung Bao @TBaoCreate]

@christianbok @postanika @Reeps1 🙏✨🙏 thank you

[Trung Bao @TBaoCreate]

@N8Solomon @HerbertWFranke @ExpandedArt @manifoldxyz 🙏✨🙏

[Skye Nicolas @skyenicolas]

Possibly the best open edition piece released this year so far! Loving my @HerbertWFranke @voicegemsarch OE. Thank you @postanika @ExpandedArt 🔥

https://t.co/DCpbD2ZbDv

[Trung Bao @TBaoCreate]

@skyenicolas @HerbertWFranke @voicegemsarch @postanika @ExpandedArt 🙏✨🙏

[Trung Bao @TBaoCreate]

@Fuchsbau1313 @postanika @RandomLikeU 🙏✨🙏

[Herbert W. Franke @HerbertWFranke]

Every voice is unique, with that comes unique fingerprint-like data that can be used for bespoke and human centred generative design. Yeff & Bao have developed a voice-centred generative system utilising data found in a human voice to synthesise the artworks’ form and colour.

[anika meier @postanika]

as many people asked for NFTs from @HerbertWFranke, susanne and i chose the NFT that was close to his heart because he came from caves to art and later to rock collecting

and he was an author and poet

this VOICE GEM brings it all together

[Harry Yeff @Reeps1]

A very important explanation of the @voicegemsarch system and the rules myself and @TBaoCreate have designed. Limitation is beauty.

[Harry Yeff @Reeps1]

Blown away by the support for myself and @TBaoCreate collaboration with the late pioneer @HerbertWFranke - A journey that started in 2021 - Only a few hours left and you can collect here:

https://t.co/qBQtfzJpZC

[SNOWCASH @SNOWCASH432]

When I curated a solo exhibition with Herbert W. Franke in 2021 in Zurich at @GerberStauffer gallery, the artist read and recorded 16 lyrics from his cybernetic poems "Astropoeticon" (1979) and we launched 3 cymatic Voice Gems in collaboration with Reeps100 and Trung Bao.

[Andrew @andr3w]

gm, over the past few months ive been learning daily from the world’s leading generative and language artists, and i want to host them in spaces today because their work is truly mind blowing. 2 pm EST, see you soon

[Margaret Murphy @margaretonline]

"existence between dream and death
will there be an awakening?"

This beautiful open edition, a collaboration between @HerbertWFranke and @voicegemsarch, is available until Saturday 9 AM PST.

https://t.co/yLJkEa0quR

[Herbert W. Franke @HerbertWFranke]

Here‘s the story behind the VOICE GEMS AUTOPOETICON available as an Open Edition until Saturday, 6 PM CET.

Herbert, who was also a caver and rock collector, became interested in VOICE GEMS in 2021, and soon a collaboration emerged.

https://t.co/VLtdgquWkB

[VOICE GEMS 1000 YEAR ARCHIVE @voicegemsarch]

Today we announce a very special collaboration with the computational master @HerbertWFranke , a collaboration that started in 2021 when Herbert ( who was 95 at the time ) reached out to us taking interest in how we visualise voices as organic structure.

https://t.co/GO9avJdhbJ