Ahnjili ZhuParris

Autonomous drones patrol city streets, not to shame individuals, but to document the true fashion criminals: fast fashion giants like Primark, H&M, and Zara. These drones highlight how one's fashion choices are related to the environmental destruction, exploitative labor practices, and rapid trend churn driven by these brands. Filming and editing by Flora Reznik

DEEPFAKE is a short visual essay and interactive installation led by AI engineer Ahnjili ZhuParris, set to premiere at Peckham Digital Festival 2025. Drawing on participants’ facial and vocal data, the installation generates a personalized, immersive narrative that reflects the evolving entanglement between selfhood and synthetic media. By placing viewers within their own digitally manipulated story, DEEPFAKE creates an intimate confrontation with the blurred lines of authenticity and identity in the digital age.

Digital Pioneers: A Visionary Prelude "Digital Pioneers: A Visionary Prelude" is a digital artwork that blends technology and art, creating a cheeky introduction to the IMPAKT festival 2023. This piece features deepfake representations of three prominent tech CEOs, not as mere figures of authority, but as digital orators guiding the audience through the evolving landscape of technology and art. Each CEO's deepfake delivers a segment of the festival's introduction, focusing on themes closely aligned with their real-world contributions and visions. The first segment delves into the transformative power of technology in art, emphasizing innovation and the breaking of traditional boundaries. The second part addresses the ethical considerations and societal impacts of tech advancements, encouraging viewers to ponder the responsibilities that come with innovation. The final segment looks to the future, inspiring a dialogue about the potential of technology in shaping new forms of artistic expression. The artwork is not just a visual spectacle but an auditory experience as well. The deepfakes' voices have been modulated to create a harmonious symphony, symbolizing the unity and collaborative potential within the tech and art communities. "Digital Pioneers" does more than just introduce a festival; it stands as a testament to the ever-blurring lines between human creativity and technological prowess, inviting viewers to explore the endless possibilities at the intersection of art and technology.

BabbleOn “Babble tapes” are digital audio files that are played in the background of a conversation in order to defeat audio surveillance. They often contain sounds of other humans speaking unintelligibly. Babble noise is considered to be one of the best noises for masking speech as the masking noises and the conversations of interest share the same acoustic properties. However today, with advanced multi-speaker identification algorithms, it may be easier than ever to extract conversations from the speakers of interest from the babble noise. BabbleOn is a small web-based interactive installation that enables audience members to create their own babble tapes. In this installation, audience members are invited to read 2-3 sentences into a microphone, their audio would then be sliced and remixed into personalized babble tapes containing the same audio properties of their own voices. Audience members can then download their own babble tapes in case they need to disguise their conversations from future audio surveillance.

VOICES Published: September 01, 2023 VOICES, an interactive installation, invites participants to co-create a sound-art composition with their voice. Participants are asked to record a secret. In return, they can be visually guided through the processing, analysis, and cloning of their voice recordings by various Voice Technologies (VT) algorithms, and can experience a sound-art composition in which their voice narrates the secrets of others. This immersive experience aims to shed light on the otherwise opaque inner workings of VT. This project is made by VOICES COLLECTIVE: Ahnjili ZhuParris (US), Mohsen Hazrati (IR), Phivos-Angelos Kollias (GR), Yu Zhang (CN) VOICES COLLECTIVE has been granted “the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists”. This grant, coupled with the support from IMPAKT, has enabled to bring the VOICES installation to life with an exhibition at ARS ELECTRONICA 2023. Exhibition at ARS ELECTRONICA during 6-10 September, 2023, as part of the CODE program.

Digital Pioneers: A Visionary Prelude "Digital Pioneers: A Visionary Prelude" is a digital artwork that blends technology and art, creating a cheeky introduction to the IMPAKT festival 2023. This piece features deepfake representations of three prominent tech CEOs, not as mere figures of authority, but as digital orators guiding the audience through the evolving landscape of technology and art. Each CEO's deepfake delivers a segment of the festival's introduction, focusing on themes closely aligned with their real-world contributions and visions. The first segment delves into the transformative power of technology in art, emphasizing innovation and the breaking of traditional boundaries. The second part addresses the ethical considerations and societal impacts of tech advancements, encouraging viewers to ponder the responsibilities that come with innovation. The final segment looks to the future, inspiring a dialogue about the potential of technology in shaping new forms of artistic expression. The artwork is not just a visual spectacle but an auditory experience as well. The deepfakes' voices have been modulated to create a harmonious symphony, symbolizing the unity and collaborative potential within the tech and art communities. "Digital Pioneers" does more than just introduce a festival; it stands as a testament to the ever-blurring lines between human creativity and technological prowess, inviting viewers to explore the endless possibilities at the intersection of art and technology.

This project represents an early exploration of deepfake technology, focusing on its applications in media and commercialism. We deepfaked audience members into a vintage Coca-Cola commercial, recreating a scene where they appear to be part of the original ad.

De Field Trip Documentary duikt in de fascinerende wereld van synthetische biologie en onderzoekt het potentieel om ons begrip van leven en innovatie te veranderen. Door middel van boeiende interviews met George Church en de Spider Goat-film, belicht het baanbrekende projecten en de ethische vragen rondom de creatie van kunstmatige organismen. Deze film biedt een inspirerende blik op het kruispunt van wetenschap, creativiteit en de toekomst van biotechnologie.

Autonomous drones patrol city streets, not to shame individuals, but to document the true fashion criminals: fast fashion giants like Primark, H&M, and Zara. These drones expose the environmental destruction, exploitative labor practices, and rapid trend churn driven by these brands. Filming and editing by Flora Reznik

In this mode, the drones enforce state-sanctioned dress codes, flagging so-called "country crimes" like wearing military-style clothing, ski masks, or the absence of a hijab. These drones don’t just monitor trends—they surveil political expression, religious dissent, and identity, turning fashion into a battlefield for national control and conformity. Filming and editing by Flora Reznik

These are the deeply subjective, highly controversial offenses rooted in the creator's own fashion rules—crocs, uncomfortable clothing and more. Ahnjili’s Crimes are less about legality or morality and more about personal taste turned public decree, where aesthetic misdemeanors are judged with dramatic flair and zero tolerance. Filming and editing by Flora Reznik