Artwork

The abundance and manipulative nature of modern information poses a serious challenge to the human capabilities of processing media in an unbiased fashion. Current levels of affective and physiological computing allows to create an AI-based personalised protective shield – a Mindshield – that would pre-screen both audio-visual media stream in real-time and viewer's reactions to that viewing. As such, it would thus be able to detect narratives of a populist nature or demagogy.

The DataWe performance was a futuristic scenario where technologies like Mindshield are developed, tested and used. With their physiology, participants influenced the audio-visual media on the deliberately delicate subject of immigration. They were connected to the system via electrodermal activity (EDA) sensors to measure emotional arousal. The DataWe system allowed to follow the affective waveform of the "neuronauts" collective in real-time, to assess its homogeneity/significance and to balance the emotionally loaded parts with the abstract generative videos and data visualisations.

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A collaboration between Alexander Väljamäe & Amal Mokded, David Mair, Blagoj Delipetrev, and Massimo Craglia.

Alexander Väljamäe website.

Hope Amal Mokded website.