Re: Siriality/ On Becoming Landscape

In Re: Siriality/ On Becoming Landscape, Los Angeles-based artist Inès Kivimäki traces the origins of Apple’s digital assistant, Siri, and its human counterpart, voice actor Susan Bennett who poses as a sonic mother-earth within a genealogy of artificial intelligence. Retelling and expanding this narrative though interviews with Bennett, Kivimäki asks her to recount her birth story, as well as Siri’s through her embodiment. Using artificial intelligence as a means of envisioning Siri’s physical incarnation and visual world, Kivimäki feeds her correspondence with Bennett and the nonsensical voice model scripts used to build Siri’s voice to early stage text-to-image and text-to-video generators, creating an output that proposes a world where the algorithmic aligns with the mythic. This project delves into the psychedelic and alienating primordial soup of generative artificial intelligence through translation and mediation into image, sculpture, and video forms which collapse into one another synthesizing feedback loops of digital and mythical memory. Includes bookmark and link to view Kivimäki’s accompanying video, Water Mother. Exterior: Blind Post Swiss Bound Cover with Spot UV Ink Interior: 100lb Uncoated Text