Sentientia attempts to reconstruct the experience of a sentient creature that learns to interact with the external world. Inspired by Dr. Frankenstein’s creature, Sentientia sends audio signals to its environment and waits for a response to establish an emotional connection. Emotional combinations are generated by the machine and transformed into sound. Once the system understands that it has a mind and is conscious of its surroundings, will it start looking for entities like itself to create social networks of emotional intelligence?
Biography:
Dorin Cucicov (b. 1988, Chișinău) is an interactive artist and software developer based in Bucharest. Currently studying Interactive Technologies in Media and Performance Art, he is mainly interested in studying the relationship between humans and technology – how does technology enter our intimate lives and how does this change our perception of who we are?
