Intuition is a human ability that is difficult to formalize, one of the few areas that has not yet been colonized by digital technology. Where are the boundaries between predictable, computable and quantifiable processes and the unpredictable, nonlinear, continuously synergic world? Throughout the history of artificial intelligence, many have asked this question. The Intuition Room’s two installations also explore these directions. Songlines and the Future Meme Device deal with the processes of memory and conscious thinking.

In addition to writing, human culture has used a variety of tools and languages to record past events, such as quipu yarns made up of tactile knots, wand diagrams used in Polynesian ocean navigation, or melodic lines encoded in Australian landscapes. The work Songlines presents the latter from an interesting aspect: the effects of ancient methods can also be observed in our various contemporary machine learning and artificial intelligence systems.

In addition to the past, we also remember the future, but once we have not experienced it, we do so in the form of conjectures and speculations, predictions, oracles, which also determine our daily decisions. The Future Meme Device is a drawing machine that creates imaginary scenarios for the visitor in the form of text messages. The texts are generated by the learning system based on the works of various magic realism writers, thus combining the patterns of existing texts with coincidences and unexpected contingencies. If words are placed next to each other that have a new meaning in a given ensemble, does it develop during the play of a pure machine logic, or does a more casual, active recipient intention prevail?