Technology has brought us great knowledge, but it is how we use it that matters. Weaving human wisdom and intelligent technology together, Suchi Reddy’s interactive artwork me + you is an emblem for a positive future of coexistence with technology.
Reddy invites you to speak a single word describing your hope for the future into the cloud base of me + you at designated points. These words, and the emotions with which they are spoken, are translated through machine learning into precise colors and patterns using an algorithm specially designed for this installation. Visitors’ collective vision for the future is displayed as a digital artifact at the sculpture’s center: a metaphor of balance between individual agency and collective responsibility.
Suchi Reddy’s me + you is powered by and was developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services to explore connections between artificial intelligence and our shared humanity.
Visitors under age 13 must be accompanied by an adult when engaging with me + you. For more information on how AWS protects your privacy and processes your voice recordings to bring me + you to life, please visit www.meplusyoufuture.com.
Description: A sculpture shaped like a fountain. It is made of many clear acrylic rods that curve out from the center and are lit. Nested amongst these lit acrylic rods, there are several hemispheric arrays of small LED lights at varying heights where visitors can speak their feeling of the future. These hemispheres of lights react to your words with different colored patterns. It has a white tall center shaped like a column, consisting of fins organized radially around the center. It has colored lights diffusing through fabric that displays a colorful combination of all visitors’ feelings.
Instructions: Add your hope for the future to this voice-activated artwork, which visualizes our collective dreams.
Accessibility: Use https://meplusyoufuture.com/ as a typing alternative response to the prompt. The website asks, “How do you see your future? Give one word” Visitors type a response to “My future looks…” A series of colorful, moving, shapes are in the background. Soft and bubbly music plays in the background. The top right corner has a button to turn the music off. The text reads, “The way that you’re feeling is influencing the world. Sections underneath state “The world is feeling: [blank]” and “Someone else is feeling: [blank]” At the bottom the viewer has the option to “Replay and share my word” and “Submit another word.”