Sorgenia / Piano B
Your Love Energy
How can one person's response become a shared experience?
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Experimental installation / Amigdala / Independent research
LIMB.0
A machine reads an expression. The room responds.
LIMB.0 turns facial-expression analysis into light and sound. This series of independent Amigdala experiments gives people a direct encounter with AI through an environment that responds to them.
01 / THE CHALLENGE
What does it feel like to be interpreted by a machine?
02 / THE EXPERIENCE
A visitor takes a seat inside an illuminated installation. LIMB.0 has a personalised voice; a camera captures facial expressions and the MorphCast SDK supplies estimates that change the surrounding colours and sound in real time. A small change in expression becomes a change in the room. The visitor can respond, remain still or choose how much to reveal.
03 / DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
We connected facial analysis, a conversational interface, lighting and sound to create an encounter beyond the screen. The exchange is deliberately open to interpretation: a machine's estimate may differ from what the person feels. That gap invites people to question the technology while experiencing it. Each version became a working experiment in how an interface could respond to a person in a physical space.
04 / IMPACT
A research series tested in public, then developed for a brand.
The exhibition record follows successive versions: LIMB.0 at Frame Awards / Frame Lab in Amsterdam, LIMB.02 at TEDx Bolzano, LIMB.03 at Sónar+D in Barcelona and TEDx Lugano, and LIMB.04 at AIXA in Milan. The series gave Amigdala repeated opportunities to explore human-machine interaction with an audience. Its research also became a foundation for Your Love Energy, developed with Piano B for Sorgenia.
05 / YOUR NEXT EXPERIMENT
Give people a way to encounter a technology and form their own questions about it.
Discuss an experimentCREDITS & FURTHER READING
Independent research, concept, creative coding and production: Amigdala. LIMB.03 sound design: Emilio Pozzolini. Facial-analysis technology: MorphCast SDK. Conversational voice technology for LIMB.03: AWS Polly. Lighting collaboration: Beblaze. Original project film: Amigdala.
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