Say What You Will

This interactive media installation transforms spoken word into light. Visitors are invited to speak into a vintage payphone—whether sharing a memory, a love note, a confession, or simply a sound. Each voice input is analyzed for its emotional tone and sonic texture, and then reimagined as a unique abstract animation projected into the environment. The artwork calls into question “what is conveyed through speech, through text, and through sound, and what might be expressed and felt when certain of these qualities are presented in evolved forms?"

About the Artist:

MASARY is a transdisciplinary media arts collective based in Fort Point, Boston. Since 2015, they have explored the interplay of sound and light through a practice that spans performance, installation, and the built world. Navigating questions of agency, memory, and time, their practice develops and deploys new technologies at architectural scale. Since its inception, the studio has engaged in research and development of methodologies to explore the physical, perceptual and imagined relationships between sound and light. This research often manifests as multimedia, site-specific works that reconsider architectural and spatial givens, interweaving both habitat and inhabitant.

About the Distributer:

Wireframe is a Montreal-based public art agency specializing in the production and global distribution of interactive art installations for public spaces.

Photo by: Aram Boghosian