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In-Forming: Using objects and images to integrate the digital and physical
Perimeters: Considering the degrees of influence of autonomous vehicles.
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The real human user/driver sits inside the autonomous vehicle. The sensors on the vehicle (the input) are tracking every detail of the landscape it encounters—a large rock in the road, a dog’s ball that has been in the gutter for weeks, a child’s shoe, the erosion of the surface of the bridge. The landscape is completely mapped. It is as if the human wears a garment like those worn by whirling dervishes, as they spin—which extends outward. It is metaphorically a projected plate or disk of data whose internal structure changes every second. The exoskeleton—which every vehicle forms around a driver—has now joined the physical landscape with the human creating a single moving, modulated 3D field of data, a modulated cast.
Invented: Objects, images and personas as tools for invention.
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A presentation of experimental images which provide a glimpse into the iterative process often used when designing new kinds of machines, (in this case “speculative vehicles”). To begin, 3-dimensional physical models are arranged on a table. Using haptic feedback, the physical models are analyzed, resulting in new versions and sketches.
These experimental images provide a glimpse into the iterative process often used when designing new kinds of machines, (in this case “speculative vehicles”) and the resulting unexpected technical and conceptual landscapes which rise up around them.
However, what sets this process apart was the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI). From the physical objects to the sketches on the wall, the AI generated images to provide feedback to human inventors. AI also generated the human “personas” (the human representations seen in the images), as both a reference and parameter to define the characteristics of the output image. Using text prompts the AI was also asked to consider the unique DNA of each persona as a parameter in determining what to include in the image.
Our unique DNA impacts our perception, creativity and approach in any inventive process. This is true for both machine aided processes and organic human activities.
Please note: The images are not presented here for beauty but utility. They represent “guides” in a process of invention. There are subtle things the AI produced, dependent on the persona, (the human representation in the image). The human image is only a reference and parameter which the AI used. The AI also created the persona from the initial text prompt, but their representation in the image is only as a reference.
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