Neuronaler Architektur Generator

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to January 7, 2018

The computer installation »Neuronaler Architektur Generator« [Neural architecture generator] is an experimental setup for digital creativity. Its principle is the following equation: spike trains in biological organisms = binary bit strings = data (coordinates, vectors) interpretable as solids.

The installation consists of two digital processors that communicate with each other, whose output – three-dimensional geometries – is projected.

Computer 1 simulates four neurons, generates spike trains and bit strings. The array of the 0s and 1s can also develop as a random number, as signals from light barriers (influxes of visitors), or similar. Computer 2 utilizes these series of pulse-coded signals for an architecture program and generates geometries with them that are plans for blobitecture-style buildings.

Here three areas are connected: »the world in our head,« »the world of digital data processing,« and »the world of generating new images / spaces / architectures.« The installation demonstrates that the creation of new images, spaces, or architectures needs no longer to stem from people, that data does not have to be processed in the human brain, and that creativity can be quasi outsourced.