Conversations with My Deepfake Dad is a project created by Sarah Sweeney and a team of collaborators.
Support provided by
Wave Farm
Resemble AI
CultureHub
Skidmore College
Conversations with My Deepfake Dad is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm.
Lead Artist
Sarah Sweeney is an artist who creates digital interventions in photography, sound and video. She works across a range of media forms, including photographic composites, iPhone apps, photographic sculptures, augmented reality, stereoscopy, animation, video, and Instagram feeds. In each piece, she weaves small bits of recorded material into larger objects that are simultaneously real and imagined. She is an Associate Professor at Skidmore College in New York and received her BA from Williams College and her MFA from Columbia University.
Sarah has worked with the new media arts organizations CultureHub and Rhizome to develop projects including the iphone app The Forgetting Machine. She has been an artist in residence at MASSMoCA and Catwalk. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in exhibitions at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Black and White Gallery, Bucharest Art Week, the Meet Factory, and the UCR/California Photography Museum. She has published articles in MAST, Accelerate and HASTAC and co-guest edited Media-N, the journal for the New Media Caucus of the College Art Association. She has given academic and artist talks about erasure, ordinary media and memory objects at BRIC, MIT, Green-Wood Cemetery, the Tang Museum, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Collaborators
Deepfake Software: Resemble Ai / Saqib Muhammad
Script Editor: Kate Sweeney
Interviewees: Kate Sweeney, Ann Sweeney, Debbie Sweeney Wick
Electronics: Evan Halstead, Jeff Briton, Omar Gomez, Zoë Bilodeau, David O’Connell
Scanning: Michael Strickland
Carpentry: Paul Davis
Printing: Andrea Casey
3D Modeling: 3DSelfies.com
Technical Director/Projections (CultureHub): DeAndra Anthony
Sound Editing (CultureHub): May You
Vocal Recordings for Deepfake Dad (CultureHub): Billy Clark
Creative Producing (CultureHub): Mattie Barber-Bockelman
