Harry Yeff aka Reeps100 is a new-media artist and Chief Curator and Strategic advisor of the Artistic Visionary Initiative, also known as A.I.V.I. at ITU.The London-born neuro-divergent artist and technologist specialises in voice and technology-based artworks In 2018 Yeff founded the VOICE GEMS project, collecting the world’s voices as data to generate digital artifacts and physical sculpture. Yeff has been visualising the voice for over 10 years and is globally celebrated as a leader in a new wave of voice, technology and A.I.-focused experimentation.His experiential audio-visual works and machine-like vocal control have amassed a global following, rendering over 100 million views online and a slew of arts and institutional acclaim and collaboration. Following in the footsteps of John Cage and Rauschenberg Yeff joined the legendary Experiments in Art and Technology program at Bell Labs in 2018 fuelling his work at the junction of artificial intelligence, visual and audio cultures, transforming vocal music into visible, physical form through cymatics, performance, installation, sculpture, photography and film.
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