I am {emotion}
narratives
by Manolis Perrakis and Mathis Antony.
Text generation model: Xiaodong Tan.
Textile work: Cristina Kountiou.
Narratives is a set of reclining chairs that visitors can lay on while listening to machine-learning-generated advice on self-improvement. The model has been trained using a myriad of self-help and motivational articles and posts, along with content gathered from around the web. The reclining chairs have vivid upholstery that celebrates life but also portrays small details such as flies or pests eating rotten fruit to highlight the inevitability of death. The advice given to participants is influenced by an image captured of the participant’s face while they are reclining on the chair. The computer vision recognises some emotional characteristics of the person’s face in real-time and uses them as seeds for the text generator. The advice will be a mix of spiritual, motivational and self-help influenced by the person’s face. Narratives is an exploration of machine-learning generative models and the future of the human-AI co-existence.
The source code for the project can be found at https://github.com/sveitser/i-am-emotion .
More information via Manolis’ website.