HP*ATM - Human Psyche AI Teller Machine
Group Show
Automation Bias for FutureJuice during Illuminate Adelaide
ENESS releases the first HP*ATM– Human Psyche Teller Machine – a mystical patchwork of sculpture and technology as part of Automation Bias the latest group show at FutureJuice during Illuminate Adelaide.
HP*ATM speaks to the allure of machines granting impossibilities such as transforming a teenager into an adult overnight (as per the film’s narrative). The enormity of the transformation is emblematic of our potentially naïve collective dream that technologies like AI will astronomically improve human capacity.
HP*HTM analyses participants via multi-modal inputs. In a world where it is uncertain what form future innovations will take, this technological mash-up challenges assumptions about the lure of modern technology and its ultimate purpose.
As participants approach the machine, they can accept or decline involvement. Upon consent, the machine reads the visitor’s face for psychological clues; performs a palm reading; and analyses button selections in sequence. Based on these data points, HP*ATM dispenses a psychological reading in the form of a lyrical horoscope.
The entire interaction is loaded, given that declining involvement indicates character traits as does the machine’s ability to coax interaction from reluctant visitors through its game-like, playful abilities.
HP*ATM’s soft, inflatable body was produced by AI based on previous ENESS artworks and a detailed prompt. The final output was artistically finessed in-house with various features added including a tiny Noren (a traditional Japanese curtain at the front of restaurants signifying that the establishment is open for business).
Building the installation around an old-school ATM machine and including a vintage telephone as part of the sequence of interactive possibilities is a nod to the attrition of technology. It also signals the very human tendency to be obsessed by current technologies without anticipating their obsolescence.
Photography : Sam Roberts
