The AI Garden — nirit+be

Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir

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In this research [download pdf here] I am looking at machine learning systems to search for possible equivalence for some of the benefits physical gardens comprise. I try to identify what is unique about the experience of a garden which is beyond the physical and the haptic, and to examine which similar values could be resembled through the use of machine learning.
I examine in what way AI is a threat for creators and for society in general, and lastly, I explore how ideas from garden design history and theory might influence the discipline of art and design based on AI.
How might the metaphor of a garden be used as a way to bridge AI and artists? What would be the role of the artist or the designer while working with AI? Could it be compared to the role of a gardener?

In a world where AI is scary to many, can looking at AI through the lens of gardens make it less scary and more accessible?

I explore the interconnection between society, economy and ecology. Using participatory installations, videos and workshops, I create experiences for humans to interact with their biosphere.

Destabilised Common Grounds is a performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses.

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Architectures of Polarisation investigates the consequences of economic policies and their paradoxes.
I use moss colonies as my experiential models, I manipulate them to behave like neo-capitalists.

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Data Fossils is a speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?

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Inflate is an experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.

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Destabilised Common Grounds - workshop - A moss rug acts as a board game. Each player gets a territory and has to keep it the most prosperous area by influencing the climate. Would the players try to change the course of the game and collaborate to balance the moss rug?

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Shared Breath, Video [20 min] / Live Performance, reviving moss with human breath. This slow, poetic experience offers an optimistic perspective and shows humans are needed in this biosphere. Kinship can be as simple and intuitive as breathing.

“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”

- Paul Klee

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Polarisation Feedback LoopA model of a meritocratic adaptive structure that works as a feedback loop to nurture and advance fast-growing strands.

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The AI Garden research

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