The Sounds Of Deep Fake art review – the future lies in AI
Featuring work from Holly Herndon and Everest Pipkin, this deep-dive in generative language is fun and thought-provoking

Finding your voice isn’t easy in the AI age. As the title of this state-of-the-art show implies, however, all that glitters is not necessarily authentic. Everest Pipkin’s ‘Shell Song’ is a push-button recorded monologue that takes in face blindness, talking books and a personal history of the recorded voice. The Unit Test collective’s Samuel Beckett referencing ‘Not I’ is a film-based show and tells of Speech2Face, a newfangled construction that attempts to generate an image of a speaker’s face based on their recorded voice.
‘Whose Voice Is It?’ finds Holly Herndon, Never Before Heard Sounds and Rachel Maclean compiling a jukebox of machine-age bangers generated by Herndon’s digital twin, Holly+, which puts voice cloning at its mechanical heart. Best of all is ‘All The Boys Ate Fish’, Theodore Koterwas’ interactive installation that records and cuts up the voices of those speaking in front of it before playing back what it hears through underfloor speakers: the future has started to sound a lot more fun.
The Sounds Of Deep Fake, Inspace, until 28 August.