Mind, 2019, Mechanical ocean drum, microcontroller, sea simulation, facial emotion recognition, network camera, computer and monitor, Variable installation.

'Mind' creates a sea from the minds of people.

AI* analyzes facial emotions of people in the space.
Ocean drums generate wave sounds reflecting the average emotions of the most recent 100 faces.
The sea constantly changes according to the state of the collective mind.


* FER+ Emotion Recognition and ONNX Runtime.

  • Mind (documentation video), 2019.

Commissioned by The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.