Machina de Facto

The installation positions itself between truth and untruth. Artificial Intelligence is present in all elements of the installation, processing and altering facts which appear seemingly familiar.

Machina de Facto presents current forms of artificial intelligence to a wider audience. It shows how machines can create entirely new realities. A key element of Machina de Facto is the Ten Second News which creates a new headline and image every ten seconds. The neural network used in the installation has utilized over 100 000 real news headlines which have been scraped from 173 different english language RSS news feeds.

All aspects of the installation, including sound, videos and the typeface used in the nameplate have been created using various neural networks.

MEDIA

OpenAI GPT2
GoogleAI Magenta
Nvidia StyleGan
Hannu Töyrylä Nqgan
Augmented reality with the Arilyn app

MATERIALS

Acrylic glass
Monitors
MDF plate
Metal struc

LOCATION

Oodi Public Library, Helsinki, FI

PRODUCTION YEAR

2019