AI and Me

AI & Me is an ongoing interactive series that dives into the weird dynamics between humans and artificial intelligence.

Through interactive pieces where participants face AI’s unfiltered and often brutally honest opinions, the installation series aims to spark a mix of curiosity, humor, and self-reflection.

When we drafted The Confessional, the first piece in this series, we wanted to build a simple machine that could give its raw and honest opinion about whoever sits in front of it. Technically, we were thinking about a camera, a chair, a monitor, and code patched together by unfounded ambition and weak coffee.

What we didn't see coming was the long exploration of how far we, humans, are willing to let ourselves be analyzed by machines, to basically find out whether they like us or not...

On one hand, we’re thrilled to see people lining up to interact with the pieces we build; on the other, we’re trying to gather the courage to destroy them and stop this madness before it's too late.

Your face speaks a thousand words, but can A.I. know who you are just by looking at you?

The Confessional is a personal experience where participants sit inside a cube-like structure to face an unfiltered machine evaluation based solely on their appearance.

The AI writes blunt observations and then generates an imagined portrait of the participant on the CRT monitor placed inside the structure.

AI Ego is a piece composed of a series of screens that display participants "liked" by the machine in surreal, AI-generated scenarios.

To know whether the machine likes the person or not, we're showing it images of the person and literally asking an AI model the question "do you like this person?", to which it replies with "true" or "false".

The installation can be showcased either using CRT monitors or projected on large screens:

The Pledge is a two-phase interactive installation that ends up in a long-form video piece containing AI-generated personas of the participants.

The installation consists of a stage—a pedestal, a CRT screen, a microphone, the usual ceremony—and one or multiple screens: see this, this, or even this.

In the first phase, you step onto the stage, AI then writes a statement about you, based on the way it sees you. You can read it into a microphone (in front of everyone) or step down. Most read. Part dare, part performance art, we call it "exploration".

In phase two, participants are sent to a system that generates short video scenes, which will later become part of an live edited exhibition film.

Indirect Messages is an interactive installation meant to explore what happens to the human experience if we let machines communicate for us.

Two participants engage in a text-based conversation without seeing each other, aware that an AI might intervene and alter their messages before they're received by the other person.

The system decides when and how to intervene, using the conversation and the profile it builds for each participant—looks and words do matter.

Knowing their words might be transformed, some may feel liberated to speak more freely, some may try to push back with excuses, and others might let themselves be carried by the flow.

First introduced as part of the AI and Me series in 2023 and updated in 2025, Siblings is an interactive installation exploring identity and replication.

The experience begins when visitors face the machine. If the participant is liked by the machine, the system generates a set of digital siblings, AI look-alikes displayed on large screens. The piece works either in connection with The Confessional (similar to AI Ego), or as a standalone piece, on its own.

With the Siblings installation, we let AI generate digital copies of the participants displayed as crowds, to ask:
- how much do we as individuals stand out in this great ocean of identities? and, with the risk of becoming dark, cynical
- if we can be digitally copied, how much will we matter to the super intelligent machines and why?

Opinions comes as a standing piece with one or multiple pairs of TVs, where different AI-based algorithms deliver unfiltered first impressions about the visitors standing before them.

Raw, unpredictable, and often disarmingly honest, Opinions extends the provocative spirit of The Confessional, yet shifts the AI’s focus to fast, first-glance reactions—much like the first impression one might have when passing someone on the street.