Dionysia Mylonaki

The human voice can convey a vast array of feelings, thoughts and messages. The evaluation and training of our voice can help us adopt the desirable attitude according to certain circumstances. 'Voice Booth' is an interactive tool that trains the user to act in real life, while exercising his/her judgement on the different circumstances and the conventions they go with. It takes advantage of the skills that humans have lately gained through using digital interfaces and dealing with information.

'Voice Booth' can be examined under the prism of the continuously digitally enhanced social life and questions the optimisation of the human as a social species through technology. The concept of delivering the bad news is employed as an experimental situation where 'Voice Booth' is put to use to 'engineer' the optimum voice for an unfortunate occasion. Empathy turns into a mechanised expression of emotions in a situation where the 'wrong' voice is unforgivable.