Today the use of AI in our daily lives is starting to be taken for granted, but do we really know how to differentiate what is real and what is not? We are putting perceptions of reality to a test, using GANs, so called generative networks, which create new data from a given training set, to explore a space with more-than-human agency.
Multiple human and non-human actors and processes come together to produce a result: memories of forest beings.
Our space is filled with narrations of forest sounds and smell. Audio stories enable an emotional experience to tap into embodied knowledge and memories of bathing in a forest with personal narrations.
We want GANs to explore representations and evocations of how a forest smells, searching different sense triggered archives. To understand what a GAN is and can do, we will have an in-situ experience where visitors enter a dark room and find different triggers creating a sensual experience: different smells and sounds feeling like nature, create an atmosphere of a “bath in a forest”.
Research Questions:
“Can GANs simulate emotional memories through smell and selected audio stories and sounds without image triggers?
“Can we create a sense-space in collaboration with more-than-human entities with AI?

Forest Beings was developed with SciArt ASTER+S, organized by Rocío García Robles (University of Seville, ES), where artists and students collaborated with neuroscientists to deveelop artistic responses to scientific research.