Ars Electronica 2022 - essay feature

Title: “Disembodied Voices and the Familiar Trap of Tech Intimacy" On artistic speculation, disembodied assistants, and the design of empathy At Ars Electronica 2022, the speculative spirit of "Welcome to Planet B: A different life is possible. But how?" filled the campus of JKU Linz with visions of alternate futures. Some works offered warnings. Others clung to fragile hopes; among them, "I Hear Future Voices" by Nives Meloni and Julian Pixel Schmiederer did something quieter but more difficult. It staged the subtle ways in which voice assistant technology already mediates human emotions, often without users noticing the shift. Read full article here - https://lianasafaryan.cargo.site/ars-electronica-2022 Linz, Austria, 2022.