Posthuman Ensemble

ChangChun Project(CHANG Jun Young & CHUN JiYoon)

CHANG Jun Young b.1966,/Republic of Korea ,CHUN JiYoon b.1972/Republic of Korea

〈Random Forest〉, 2021.

AI Drones Flight
Sound : ZXIS / Visual Design : KIM Hye Ryeong / Drones Technical Operating : LEE Seung Woo

ChangChun Project’s {Random Forest} is an AI–drone flight project inspired by the word “ensemble,” also featured in the exhibition title, and its mathematical definition. This work uses AI to interpret and permute the emotions expressed by unspecified audience members, drawn from randomly occurring meetings, into drone flight paths that are then averaged through the accumulation of data such as forests. Through this process, ChangChun Project’s work symbolically demonstrates the idea of a “forest of nonhumans” realized through the phase transition of objects with the most variability in the myriad of mutual effect
and reciprocity relationships created by humans and nonhuman objects like AI and drones. The AI’s translation and transition of human emotions into data forms for drones and the drones’ flight along these trajectories show that nonhumans can understand, respect, and heal human emotions.