Voice Mosaic (moZaico de voSes)

The Voice Mosaic is a web-art application that converges speech and image, building a visual mosaic on the web with the chosen colors and recorded voices of people who interact with it from any place in the globe. The voice interface uses speech synthesis and voice recognition. The work was developed in three languages and to interact with it in English, make a phone call to USA: (800) 289.5570 or (407) 386-2174 / PIN number: 9991421055. The mosaic is seen/heard on the web (www.voicemosaic.com.br).

The intention of this work is cause reflections about convergence, hybridization, and our humanity in the new high technological social structure. In this sense, the work puts together dualities that complete each other, such as: speech/image-only, simple/complex, old/new, low-tech/high-tech, time/space, individual/community, man/computer, passive/active, expected/uncertain, among others.

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Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel

Web-artist, Engineer, postgraduate in Marketing, and also in Graphics Design. Master's degree in Art in progress at ECA/USP, focusing on man/machine interfaces. Director of technology at NMD Internet & Multimedia, Ltd. - winner of 11 Internet Best Awards in Brazil since 1998. Professor of 'New Technologies' and 'Marketing' at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi. International technical advisor in US for AllHealthNet.com. Frequent speaker at Internet conferences in Brazil and Abroad since 1998. Featured speaker at CUMREC 2004, USA. "Best Presentation of Track" Award at WebdevShare2003, USA; and "Best Presentation of Conference" Award at HighEdWevDev2004, USA. Personal website at www.martha.com.br.