Image of the Forest
“(...) all intelligence is an abstraction of the present context. Therefore producing an abstraction is the essence of intelligence. But that abstraction is only a snapshot of the organism; it is not the organism itself. All models are wrong, because we build them to perform actions that are not feasible using the original.”
~The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI
Novel brain computer interfaces enable us to examine the questions of experiential deprivation in the virtual, vision dominated spaces and contrast them to the objective measures of real world experiences.
Looking through those lenses Image of The Forest explores how, with the use of sensory technologies and insights from data, we can create scientific evidence for the governance of the elusive and fleeting. With the rapid onset of infinite seductive mimicry of models abstracting the real phenomenon we propose to return to the origins, to track the neural signals of skewed experiences. To better understand the design forms simultaneously alluring and shallow. To create spaces that are enriching at the most fundamental, subconscious level of human perception encouraging a dialogue about the values we should nourish to create the physical and digital architectures of the future.
The resulting artwork is an interplay between the complexity of visual forest scenery and the shift in the neural activity interacting in an infinite feedback loop with the unreachable goal of finding the personal representation of the ‘image of the forest’ - the essence of the spatial shapes and structures, that invites the viewer to explore opaque, dream-like spirits of human experience.