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TL;DR: The project explores the relationship between text and voice in digital communication, examining how words, phrases, and sentences represent interpersonal experiences and the way users relate to digital communication.

Abstract: ARTIST STATEMENT We use text so frequently in digital communication, but we seldom stop to consider “voice” within our correspondences. As artists, we are concerned with the way computer technology permeates our everyday lives, and how our everyday lives are in turn shaped by the technologies we use. Words, phrases, and sentences represent a time, a person, a map of interpersonal experiences (the external world) as well as the way users relate to the context of digital communication, and to their own computers. Do we have a particular “voice” in our daily writing to friends and colleagues, and does that voice change depending on who we are writing to and why? This project maps the geography of these relationships with sound.