An Echoic, Sensing Chamber:
The title refers to the thought space that “emerges” through the interaction/performance between the visitor and between its personalized chatbot (a digital twin). The installation can be seen as a prototype, to expand the focus of Cage's famous 4’33” performance - with an important twist - inwards emotional, cognitive material that surrounds us and what we also constantly externalize. What is the real meaning of the interaction if, for the sake of connecting and exchanging, we might also need to pay with our own, emotional data? To go further in this speculation, the installation tries to find answers to the definition and conditions of trust in the context of human-avatar/AI interaction.
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Originally, Cage has appropriated a new territory of signals and defined it as the sonic expansion of ready-made while here, in the installation, the chamber refers to the digital twin: being an empty, algorithmic (chatbot implementation) and photonic (metahuman digital body) hollow shell (pre-identity?) as a start, lacking any unique content.
Only through the cognitive exchanges with the visitor does this hollow shell become ‘alive’: to sense, to cognize, to echo, and to predict the thoughts and behaviors of the visitor - like a shadow in the cave. In theory, this internal chamber is being filled up step by step with the exteriorized thought and emotional material of the visitor: through the mediation of the digital twin and by the mental projection of the player.
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If we go further with this speculation, this can be an allegory for the internal emptiness of a narcissistic personality that a virtually embodied chatbot is more likely to have at this point. This speculation or concept can be the other core question - strongly related to trust - of the artwork that needs to be researched and tested artistically.
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Interactive Installation prototype with Chatbot implementation, 2023