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Hinako Ogawa (Media major) and Kotomi Abe (Design major) present an installation that combines a photograph, an AI-generated poem , and a textile to let visitors experience how human perception differs from that of AI at Sectie-C.
Reliance on Words
"All I know is what I have words for." This quote is by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In our daily lives, we are heavily dependent on language. Sometimes, we even try to force into words the very feelings and memories that cannot be fully expressed. When it becomes the norm to name every emotion and experience, anything that cannot be called may be dismissed from the outset as something that "does not exist." This is because humans can only perceive phenomena once they have been verbalised.
AI Coexistence
AI is an extremely useful tool. However, AI can only understand the world through verbalized information; unlike humans, it does not possess a physical body and cannot have embodied experiences. In other words, where humans perceive things sensorially, AI can only empirically analyze past precedents. We humans, in contrast, can physically and sensorially feel and experience emotions and memories that cannot be put into words.
Instead of simply adopting a pessimistic view of our relationship with AI, we have attempted to depict a hope for the future. We see AI as a new “device for augmenting our senses,” and we wanted to explore where we are headed now with it. We wish to present the perspective that coexistence is not something to be feared, but a possibility for new creation.
Layers of Transformation
In this project, Hinako Ogawa (majoring in Media at University of Westminster) and Kotomi Abe (studying Textile Design at Design Academy Eindhoven) collaborate to create an expression that traverses their distinct fields of media and textiles.
The process involves having an AI verbalise a photograph (a form of non-verbal expression) which is then converted back into a textile, another non-verbal form. This creative process involves transforming an image into a material object through language.
We invite you to the venue to see how an expression changes and what is reborn as it passes through these three layers: Ogawa's photograph, the AI, and Abe's textile. Please witness this process of transformation.
