The Guest and the Host
| Created | 2026 |
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| Collaborator | V2_lab for the Unstable Media |
| Medium | Electronic Interactive Object Installation AI |
The Guest and the Host is an artistic research project exploring the transformation of machines from passive tools into active actors. Its central element is an "electronic organism" designed to evolve its behavior through constant interaction with its environment. By liberating evolutionary algorithms from the digital realm and giving them physical form, the project depicts the often obscure and unpredictable nature of machine learning.
The object is capable of perceiving light, sound, and distance while moving through physical space as an autonomous entity. It actively absorbs the soundscape, capturing fragments of it, which it processes and reorganizes. By resynthesizing these inputs into new sonic forms, the machine creates a unique form of communication, a primitive language through which it communicates with the world and signals its internal state.
The title reflects the ambiguity of the object's existence. While the machine serves as a technological host for the algorithm, the word host in Czech translates to guest, framing the machine as a foreign visitor entering human space, observing our presence, and imitating us in order to adapt.
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