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Common Spaces - Digital Enhanced
Mutualities I“The intention was to create an immersive experience that uses the entirety of the gallery space, where the whole spectrum of interactions between people, nature, and digital technology within our shared urban spaces is legible from both ends of the room.”
Sonja Berthold, principal and founder
This experimental exhibition at the Spazio Rava Palazzo in Venice explored human / AI relationships as part of the official collateral events at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2021.
Operating within the emerging field of Neurourbanism, Mutualities asks: what do we share, who do we share it with, and where does this exchange take place or, how do we live together?
The exhibition is composed of large-scale, immersive video and audio projections that expand the material boundaries of the gallery into virtual space. It showcases 12 future scenarios where humans and AI interact. Each space is familiar—a street, a courtyard, a dining room—yet radically altered; quieter, smarter, adaptive, autonomous, and self-learning.
Mutualties prefigures such a space: infrared technology, AI, and algorithms track and respond to visitors’ proximity, gestures, and movement to create a unique sequence of videos tailored to each viewer. The empathic space uses AI algorithms to learn from, and grow with, the visitor; a “smart” exhibition that gets smarter over the course of its six-month existence. In this way, the viewer becomes an active participant/conspirator with the technology, transforming the exhibition into a resonant body of subtle calls and responses.
Visualisations: Bloomimages, Berlin, Germany
Videos and Sound: Astronaut, Berlin, Germany
Signage: Studio Joost Grootens, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exhibition Photography: Frederico Torra, Milan, Italy & Paris, France
Promoting Institution: Interdisciplinary Forum Neurourbanism, Berlin, Germany