Proteus 2.0 Installation-modulates Ferrofluid Patterns In Human-machine Intel In Closed Loop

Michel Tessier

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Pete Ramón

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This is unlike Black Goo. This is where an AI, mixed with human intelligence and a headset, control the ferrofluid. Not where the "fluid" itself is self-aware artificially intelligent.
"Proteus is an installation that modulates ferrofluid patterns, with both human and machine intelligences, in a closed loop. Through an individual and prolonged visual experience, it immerses the visitor in an implicit interaction with the material through a brain-computer interface. A pre-trained dedicated machine learning model is informed by real-time neural signals, produced by the visitor’s gaze while being exposed to the rapid serial change of patterns without any explicit instructions to follow. Over the time of the gaze experience, visitors may witness a certain stabilisation of their own modulated picture of the material.
This model not only modulates the ferrofluid display over time but also slowly builds a digital motion picture of its behaviour. All the recorded sequences are then displayed separately to exhibit the variety of patterns collected throughout the period of the festival. The project infers on digitally encoded material properties with the use of a computational mixture of both human and machine vision models."
https://mariasni.com/project/proteus/
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Although, a third party could hack the headset and record the thoughts going through the user's brain as postulated by neuroethicists in these types of BCI applications.