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 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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
"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
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
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