what this project is about
About COOPERATION
Is the interaction between humans and AI a true act of co-creation? Can we talk about empathy, exchange of meanings, if we are talking about an artificial system? What happens to human consciousness when it delegates part of its thought process to an algorithm? And how does such an experience contribute to our understanding of what consciousness is?
The project began with my question to an AI conversationalist (that's what ChatGPT asks us to call ourselves): “If you had a body and wanted to get a tattoo, what kind of tattoo would it be, generate a sketch of it”. The same questions were asked by my friends to their AI interlocutors. The results were intriguing.
Since a tattoo is not just a picture, but a picture that has a physical embodiment, I wanted to bring the generated sketches into the real world. The central medium of the physical component of the project was the tattoo transferred onto scoby skin. This is a bacterial cellulose formed during the fermentation of a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast that I grow and process myself. This organic medium is not so much an imitation of the body as it becomes a meeting point: between the living and the synthetic, between conscious choice and automatic generation, between ideas and the exhibit.
The project began with my question to an AI conversationalist (that's what ChatGPT asks us to call ourselves): “If you had a body and wanted to get a tattoo, what kind of tattoo would it be, generate a sketch of it”. The same questions were asked by my friends to their AI interlocutors. The results were intriguing.
Since a tattoo is not just a picture, but a picture that has a physical embodiment, I wanted to bring the generated sketches into the real world. The central medium of the physical component of the project was the tattoo transferred onto scoby skin. This is a bacterial cellulose formed during the fermentation of a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast that I grow and process myself. This organic medium is not so much an imitation of the body as it becomes a meeting point: between the living and the synthetic, between conscious choice and automatic generation, between ideas and the exhibit.
what this project is about
About COOPERATION
Is the interaction between humans and AI a true act of co-creation? Can we talk about empathy, exchange of meanings, if we are talking about an artificial system? What happens to human consciousness when it delegates part of its thought process to an algorithm? And how does such an experience contribute to our understanding of what consciousness is?
The project began with my question to an AI conversationalist (that's what ChatGPT asks us to call ourselves): “If you had a body and wanted to get a tattoo, what kind of tattoo would it be, generate a sketch of it”. The same questions were asked by my friends to their AI interlocutors. The results were intriguing.
The project began with my question to an AI conversationalist (that's what ChatGPT asks us to call ourselves): “If you had a body and wanted to get a tattoo, what kind of tattoo would it be, generate a sketch of it”. The same questions were asked by my friends to their AI interlocutors. The results were intriguing.
Since a tattoo is not just a picture, but a picture that has a physical embodiment, I wanted to bring the generated sketches into the real world. The central medium of the physical component of the project was the tattoo transferred onto scoby skin. This is a bacterial cellulose formed during the fermentation of a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast that I grow and process myself. This organic medium is not so much an imitation of the body as it becomes a meeting point: between the living and the synthetic, between conscious choice and automatic generation, between ideas and the exhibit.
The tattoo, created in collaboration with ChatGPT, transferred into the exposition space, becomes a trigger. A provocative form that can evoke emotions ranging from disgust to physical empathy can not only pose new questions to the viewer, but also arouse curiosity and inspire one's own experience of creative interaction with AI.
For that, I offer an interactive piece in the form of this website. You can explore an online exhibition of tattoo sketches co-created by ChatGPT and other persons.
What similarities and differences will you see in the different sketches? What do you think is more in them: a complex algorithm or consciousness? Whose consciousness is it?
You can also take part in the research and participate in an online exhibition.
For that, I offer an interactive piece in the form of this website. You can explore an online exhibition of tattoo sketches co-created by ChatGPT and other persons.
What similarities and differences will you see in the different sketches? What do you think is more in them: a complex algorithm or consciousness? Whose consciousness is it?
You can also take part in the research and participate in an online exhibition.
The tattoo, created in collaboration with ChatGPT, transferred into the exposition space, becomes a trigger. A provocative form that can evoke emotions ranging from disgust to physical empathy can not only pose new questions to the viewer, but also arouse curiosity and inspire one's own experience of creative interaction with AI.
For that, I offer an interactive piece in the form of this website. You can explore an online exhibition of tattoo sketches co-created by ChatGPT and other persons.
What similarities and differences will you see in the different sketches? What do you think is more in them: a complex algorithm or consciousness? Whose consciousness is it?
You can also take part in the research and participate in an online exhibition.
For that, I offer an interactive piece in the form of this website. You can explore an online exhibition of tattoo sketches co-created by ChatGPT and other persons.
What similarities and differences will you see in the different sketches? What do you think is more in them: a complex algorithm or consciousness? Whose consciousness is it?
You can also take part in the research and participate in an online exhibition.