Amigdala / Independent research
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What does it feel like to be interpreted by a machine?
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Immersive knowledge experience / ENI · Focus Live
Echoes of Intelligence
Your story becomes part of a collective soundscape.
For Eni at Focus Live 2025, Amigdala turned visitors' scientific interests into AI-generated stories in text and voice. Each voice joined an evolving soundscape, connecting a personal narrative with a collective memory of the event.
01 / THE CHALLENGE
Where does supercomputing enter your world?
02 / THE EXPERIENCE
The visitor selects a scientific domain, such as medicine or engineering, on a touchscreen and answers a few questions. Generative AI creates a personal narrative in real time, displayed as text and read aloud. Each new voice track joins the earlier ones, building an evolving soundscape: an individual story becomes part of the installation's collective memory. Visitors also receive their story as a takeaway.
03 / DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
We designed the concept and produced the installation with Eni for Focus Live 2025. Built around HPC6, Eni's supercomputer, and presented publicly as Supercalcolo, super passione, the experience gave people a personal route into a technical subject. Touchscreen choices fed a narrative-generation system; text, voice and accumulated audio connected individual participation with the surrounding space. Eni provided the scientific subject and brand context; Mondadori Media organised the festival.
04 / IMPACT
3,000 stories added to a collective memory.
Amigdala's project record reports 3,000 visitors, 3,000 unique stories generated and an engagement rate of 87.5% across three festival days. Beyond each personal narrative, the accumulated voices created a shared soundscape that changed as people took part. The installation gave Eni a participatory way to introduce supercomputing within its Main Partner presence at Focus Live.
05 / YOUR NEXT EXPERIMENT
Give your audience a personal route into a subject that usually needs an expert explanation.
Discuss an experimentCREDITS & FURTHER READING
Concept, design and production of the installation: Amigdala, in collaboration with Eni. Festival organiser: Mondadori Media. Focus Live 2025, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, 7–9 November 2025. Public event title: Supercalcolo, super passione.
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