This was my final project for Dean Terry‘s synth lab. I had seen part of his play “The Alexa Dialogues” before it’s release when I had just started working with voice technologies. I was inspired because I was seeing these devices do something I had never seen them do before, act. These digital actors would never forget their lines (although they might have a hard time hearing you), and deliver their lines exactly the same every time. I was interested in how these robots had become actors, and if the reverse would be equally as interesting. What if actors became robots (or voice assistants)?
For this play I wanted to play with the idea of our social media selves. We often only display our best selves to the world, I figure if they were alive they would want to usurp us.