My father died when he was forty-four and I was seventeen. When I turned forty-four I wanted to talk to him again. I contacted Resemble AI, a company that creates clones of voices using machine learning, and we worked together to create an AI model of my father’s voice.
This project is a series of six conversations created through my interactions with the audio deepfake of my father. His responses are based on different sources of information–producing a kaleidoscope of different dads.
Through our conversations I struggle with the question–how do you reconstruct someone who is no longer here?
Conversations
Conversation One: Interviews
Based on interviews with family
What did you love? What did you hope for? What do you regret? What do you miss most? How did you die?
Conversation Two: Letters & Recordings
Based on archival audio tapes and letters
What were you struggling with? How well did we know you? How do you feel about me listening to your tapes?