Understand_V.T.S.HAOS

Is there any other way for us to understand this world?

《Understand_V.T.S》 is an interactive sensory substitution installation, conducting the experiment in which the possibility of the cooperation between our brain and artificial algorithms are assessed. Control the vision extension robot wanders about the surroundings for you. Eventually, your brain will manage to recognize surroundings signals.

In this piece of work, it tries out how well our brains (natural) work with AI (man-made). The feature of neuroplasticity allows our senses to perceive the world in various ways in which we might see not with our eyes, but with skins or listen not through our ears, but through taste buds.

Lai Jiun Ting introduced an object recognition system — YOLO v3 — converting the results into a Braille reading system to thigh skin, and converting tactile image pixels to motors on users’ backs. That is how the installation’s system — V.T.S.HAOS (Vision to Touch Sensory Human and Artificial Operate System) works.