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Experiencing new connections

Part 01

What happend the past months? Research Artifjcial Intelligence and Cognition Trust and Transparancy Interface Signs, Language and Senses Exploration Living with Artifjcial Intelligence Nature as an interface

Artifjcial Intelligence and Cognition

To better understand machines and artifjcial intelligence we have to understand what is happening inside these mysterious objects. Artifjcial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term. But generally speaking is AI a technology that is using a algorithm to make decisions. There are various subfjeld for example machine learning, deep learning etc.. AI already has many fjelds of implementation, without us knowing about it. I have reasearched the defjnition of intelligence, decision making of machines in comparison to humans and how and if we are able to trust machines. For the purpose of this master project, I have decided to concentrate on cognitive instead of artifjcial

• intelligence. This narrows down my fjeld of interest

and makes it easier for further explorations. Cognition is the capability to process information through senses and experiences. I will try to explore if I can make a cognitive artefact.

Trust and Transparancy

Trust is the foundation of our society and decision

• making. Depending on continuously changing

variables in a social setting, we adjust our decisions of whom or what to trust. And the feeling of trust can be connected to different biochemical processes within the human brain, which can make trust “visible”. We are able to understand certain traits from other human beings. But when there is a different system, like a computer, data or let it be AI. We don’t know how it works, how it reacts, and therefore also can’t foresee outcomes. For me, the best way to “design trust” is to make processes more transparent. Trust will not be directly visualised in my project, though it is a huge part of it. However, I think trust can be build by experiencing a connection to ourselves,

• thers, nature and technology. Making processes and

connections visible, and giving time for exploration will help during this process.

Interface

The interface is how we are able to understand and interact with and through objects. When we think about interfaces, we most likely think about digital

• nes. The phone, the computer screen the TV etc..

But there are more than these. The human skin for example and other natural interfaces are often forgotten. I want to play with the perception of interfaces. Using

• ur own human skin as the common ground to

explore technology and nature. With something that is close to us, the experience will be more intense and meaningful.

Signs, Language & Senses

How did language evolve? How do we understand signs? And how do we fjnd a common ground without undermining diversity and adding space for interpretation? These are all questions I have asked myself the last few months. We all communicate with each other in some way or another. But how could interspecies communication look like if it would not be based on speaking? Just as Neil Harbisson or Moon Ribas, I want to combine new senses, researching experimental approaches of communication by creating a new, or enhanced sense. The goal is to understand us, nature and technology in a new way by creating a new language set.

“Such reciprocity is the very structure

• f perception. We experience the

sensuous world only by rendering

• urselves vulnerable to that world.

Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.” David Abram

Part 02

Where am I right now? Technology and Nature Habits and Rituals Research Exploration Hacking the Human Interface Human - Nature - Technology Interactions State of the Art Research Questions Mapping routines

Technology and Nature

Just as we sometimes forget that we are part of nature, we seemingly forget that technology is already part

• f us. In the past years human-nature-technology

interaction has been drastically infmuenced by technological revolution. Analog human-interaction is being teared apart by constant digital updates, self-

• ptimisation, real-time self-editing and is shifting our

focus on quantity rather than quality. I want to explore these already existing connections. The main idea is to redesign our interaction and routines with technological devices. After observing habits and rituals, I would like to intervene in the moment in which we use technology. To experience a connection to our own nature. I want to use this opportunity to shift our infmuence on our surrounding nature and social interactions for a future in which interaction with technology and nature is balanced.

“We expect more from technology and less from each other” Sherry Turkle

AIServe - Navigationtool which captures the environment in real time to then give audio feedback, for blind or visually impared. Neil Harbisson is able to experience color through sound Bouquet – Synaesthetic olfactory device to perceive colour through fragrance by ECAL

State of the art

Connected Tools by Giulio Barresi Devices that mediate smartphone consumption

Alt-C – Designing for synergy between our ecosystems and network economics by Michael Sedbon In the eyes of an animal - MLF virtualise a forest through the eyes of its creatures The landscape is created using Lidar scans and bespoke 360° cameras

Research Questions

How can I hack the human interface with an cognitive artefact? How can I make knowledge, interactions and experiences with technology and nature more tangible? How can I redesign habits, and our infmuence on our surrounding nature and social interactions for a future in which technology and nature is balanced?

Exploration

Mapping Mapping daily rituals/ routines in which we interact with

• thers and our Phone.

Storytelling Creating a narrative which can visualise opportunities/ moments in which change in our rituals can happen. (Animation?) Prototyping Artefact or object, close to our body, which interacts with us when using technology, as the fjrst instance of change.

References

Artifjcial Intelligence Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artifjcial Intelligence by Max Tegmark https://link.springer.com/ article/10.1007%2Fs11023-018-9482-5 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/in-the- age-of-ai-is-seeing-still-believing Cognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/ embodied-cognition Interface https://backyardbrains.com/experiments/ humanhumaninterface https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/a- temporary-tattoo-that-senses-through-your-skin Signs, Language and Senses The spell of the sensuous by David Abram https://backyardbrains.com/experiments/ humanhumaninterface https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/a- temporary-tattoo-that-senses-through-your-skin https://www.wired.com/2016/11/arrivals-designers- crafted-mesmerizing-alien-alphabet/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k Technology and Nature https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/opinion/the- antisocial-effects-of-social-media.html?_r=1 https://breadcrumbs.wiobyrne.com/are-my-friends- really-my-friends/ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/ your-phone-vs-your-heart.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7984159 State of the Art https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/ connected-tools-devices-that-mediate-smartphone- consumption/ https://www.aiserve.co/