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Rania Kim: BOUNDARIES OF AGENCY

TURNS x Global Sonic Research Residency Edition | Futureproofing Connection

Rania Kim sits in the middle of a stage lit in blue.
Year
2025
Date
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Interactive Voice Installation Boundaries of Agency invites audiences to step into a conversation between themselves and AI exploring identity, data, AI, and sustainability. The exhibition space becomes a responsive voice laboratory where participants become both subjects and co-creators. Participants will hear their voices answer questions related to The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals in AI-cloned versions of their own voices. This feedback loop unfolds inside a spatial sound environment. As more voices are added, the installation performance grows into a collective sound sculpture that concludes in a live performance — blending participant voices with sonified data such as world temperature anomalies and live data-driven instrumentation. The work transforms debates about AI ethics into an embodied, emotion and thought-provoking experience, asking: Where do we draw the line between technological innovation and identity protection? What does connection mean when human and machine speak with the same voice? Rather than simply observing, participants feel the ethical stakes of AI — through the unsettling experience of hearing themselves say what they never said. Each visit ends with a reflective feedback moment, creating a growing archive of community responses to the question: How do we want to share our voices with AI? Through this interplay of sound art, technology, and critical inquiry, Boundaries of Agency turns debates about AI ethics into a deeply personal encounter — sparking conversation, reflection, and collective imagination about the futures we are building.
Duration
22:54

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