Astrid Kraniger

Calma
Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design — Winter 2017

Citizen Mirror
Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium — Summer 2018

Eikasía / Is This Real?
Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium — Summer 2018

Fallen Star Miner
Carte Blanche — Winter 2018

Human At Work
Constraints (Short-term Project) — Winter 2018

Neuronium
Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design — Winter 2017
Astrid Kraniger — Calma
Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design — Winter 2017
We use Artificial Intelligence as tool. Machines and tools are designed to make their use as enjoyable as possible. We fill machines with our emotional associations.
The field of AI is flooded with anthropomorphic concepts for machine learning products. Instinctively we inject them a consciousness.
Calma is a garden tool, that speaks to you and has the social function to release stress. Her relaxing voice guides you to engage with nature and reacts to your movement.
Having a garden tool as therapist, carries the absurdity of the emotional connotation we give to AI machines to extremes.

