Narciss (Self-analysing Machine)

Brief description

The machine uses object recognition and other machine learning applications to analyze itself. "uses artificial intelligence to analyse itself". In the installation setup the machines camera is directed towrds a mirror and the object recognition algorithm is trying to recognize what the camera sees in the mirror.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
Narciss Art, Installation art Waltz Binaire
Who does what?
This technology
This entity
is/are
Aesthetic characteristics
Colours
Machine P.O.V
Not machine P.O.V.
Notes
In this example I have divided the tech into two:
The actual technology camera, machine learning and object recognition is one assemblage that is actually used in this installation.
I have merge them together with verbs though I could probably separate them, at least the camera... should I do this?

Then I have another tech entity that is the more speculative General AI and this is where I put verbs like self-reflecting end Mirrored because the machine is looking at it self trying to figure out what it is. I did not use a character here because I do not think it has any characteristics that are relevant. I also did not create a generic entity like Machine because I am not sure on what level we want to catch this and somehow my gut feeling that this is more on a speculative technology level. Is there other opinions?

Further both the Creator and the Observer are part of the meaning making process. Here I used the Generic entity of User even if there is not really a interaction going on between the user and the machine. I am just hesitating to create another entity such as observer. But I think this is a fringe case for us to define what we mean with User.

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