Work by Tansy Xiao
Artist Tansy Xiao‘s interactive video installation Glottogenesis functions as both an immersive audiovisual installation and an activatable instrument, allowing for fluid, interchangeable roles between spectators and creators, while merging existing language with nascent language in the making. The installation features a singing chamber with multiple voice inputs, dynamically analyzing language and sound in real time to create an ecosystem that is both embodied and ephemeral.
The project is an XR installation centered on speech recognition, but at its core, it’s about listening. Integrated with the open-source Vosk speech recognition library, which supports 20+ languages, Glottogenesis amplifies diverse language traditions by adapting to various linguistic environments. It fosters an open platform to experience the rhythms and musicality of speech through different cultural lenses.
About the Artist
Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator, and writer based in New York. Undertaking interdisciplinary collaborations involving human participants, technological systems, and non-anthropogenic organisms, Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people.
Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, New Media Caucus, Piksel Festival, Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum, IRCAM Forum, Technarte, NARS Foundation, HASTAC Conference, UKAI Projects, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Porto, Osaka University of Art, Taipei Digital Arts Festival, WIP Arts and Technology Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, among others. She has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
This installation will open for July Artwalk and be on view in The Vault at AC Satellite through August 15.
Opening during July Artwalk
July 10, 6 – 9 p.m.
Generous funding for Alabama Contemporary curatorial projects and related programming is provided by:
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