Mutualities
Designing the future common space
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.
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.
Sonja Berthold, cofounder:
‘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.’
‘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.’
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.
Mutualities at 17th International Architecture Exhibition of
La Biennale di Venezia 2021, Venice, ITA
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