S+T+ARTS

STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS residencies foster pioneering collaborations and the STARTS Prize honors the most inspired results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. STARTS is funded through various schemes provided by the European Commission.

S+T+ARTS Prize 2020

LIMB.0

AMIGDALA
In a historical moment in which human intelligence discovers artificial intelligence, Amigdala.ch, has decided to design an interactive media art installation to create a phygital space (LIMB.0) to put people in touch, all of them, with a computer able to guide them in an exploratory experience of man-machine relationship, based on human emotions and on screen-less interfaces.

As in each relationship you can decide whether or not to show your emotions and how much to allow yourself to interact with the other. As we all know, in a first meeting, the word has a much lower weight compared to body and face language, which is why we decided to give LIMB.0 a personalized voice but to concentrate on interacting on the recognition of emotions thanks to face analysis. LIMB.0 today is able to recognize gender, age-range and identify 40 emotions and then transform them into colors and sound in real-time to return an immersive, personalized environment.

With these experiments we have a single goal, creating an opportunity for a meeting between human intelligence and artificial intelligence and to explore a brief relationship to make the public reflect on this issue. Any errors and inaccuracies, as well as the possible non-correspondence of the colors with respect to personal expectations, are part of the experiment, part of the reflection that each guest will be able to make thanks to the experience of interaction with LIMB.0