AI-Driven Artwork Exhibited at Uppsala Art Museum 🦌
Assisting Mat Collishaw’s Insilico in Uppsala
I had the chance to contribute to Mat Collishaw’s touring exhibition at the Uppsala Art Museum. Mat Collishaw is a contemporary British artist, known for using photography, film, and installation to explore themes of beauty, cruelty, and the darker sides of human nature.
The work, Insilico, features a life-sized animatronic Stag that slips, slides, and falls depending on the intensity of online abuse directed at individuals on Twitter.
The concept builds on sentiment and hate speech analysis. Bespoke software continuously trawls Twitter to detect who is most abused on the platform. Incoming tweets are rated according to their abusive intensity, and this data drives the Stag’s movements. A monitor placed behind the installation displays both the live Twitter feed and the code processing the results.
My role was to integrate AI-based sentiment analysis into this system. By analyzing the language in real-time tweets, the model translated the fluctuations of online abuse into physical gestures of the animatronic Stag — a bridge between digital hostility and embodied vulnerability.
A poetic reminder that technology can not only amplify, but also expose the invisible currents of our collective behaviors.