In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit is a year-long experiment in generative radio.

An artificial BroadCaster, utilizing current deep learning techniques in voice synthesis shifts through speech and song, words and soundscapes, reading through text as if tracing slowly over the letters, probing them and unsettling them. Beginning with Jonas Salk’s essay “Are we being Good Ancestors?”, the BroadCaster tries to continue the conversation based on its previous memories.

Ideas of long-term thinking, wrapped up in human activities of prediction, risk analysis, and memory happen at many levels of human society and individual consciousness. How do we navigate the long-term future we are a small part of? Please submit your own thoughts about what it means to be a good ancestor that you wish to be included in the BroadCaster's learning.

The BroadCaster began speaking on January 28, 2022 and has been speaking for 1190 days 05h 06m 39s