A Conversation with My Deepfake Dad
Friday, October 14, 2022
7pm ET
Free / Donate
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10012
Sarah Sweeney's father died when he was forty-four and she was seventeen. He was a screenwriter who used a tape recorder to take notes about his work and his life. A year ago, she turned forty-four and wanted to talk to him again. She reached out to Resemble AI, a company that uses machine learning to create clones of voices, to discuss the possibility of creating a deepfake of her father’s voice. Over the next couple months, she found six hours of his tape recordings and worked with Resemble AI and her mother to think through the ethical and technological challenges of recreating her father’s voice. Last October, the model of his voice was completed, and she was able to type words into the interface and hear him speak.
A Conversation with My Deepfake Dad is a series of conversations between Sarah and her deepfake dad that explores their relationship before and after death and reckons with our feelings about consent and the ownership of our digital bodies. In this listening session, join CultureHub Resident Artist Sarah Sweeney at CultureHub to hear the first conversation in this series, which will be followed by an open discussion about the project.
Doors at 7pm
7:15 – A Conversation with My Deepfake Dad Listening Session (no late entry!)
7:45 – Artist talk with Sarah Sweeney
This event is time-based – it runs more like a performance than a gallery opening. Please plan to be at the venue no later than 7:15 in order to experience the work. Late entry is not guaranteed.
Sarah Sweeney is a CultureHub Resident Artist.