on: death
for: mortals
I have always believed in the idiocracy of the wars, and never found them as a solution to anything. “When we all die eventually, why are we figthing?” This was the question that I wanted to propose to all humans and hope to get an answer. Instead, I decided to take the lead and show them the answer myself.
on: death / for: mortals is an exhibition design project that aims to show how the AI tools are cleverer than humans in understanding how nonsensical wars are, when all we can do instead is embrace our fate in mortality and find peace. In the exhibition there are statements, jokes, visuals and videos generated through AI chatbots and prompt to image generators which simultaneously mock and teach humans about death and peace. The exhibition conveys a research based approach to the critical subject of death, and displays its outcomes in a humorous and reflective tone.
I started by gathering responses from my colleague friends, asking them questions about death and how they approach it. This survey gave me the initiative to start pondering the concept of death and what words, concepts, behaviors, colors, etc. could be associated with it.
Recording my answers, I asked the similar questions to AI chatbot tools such as ChatGPT, AnimaAI, Replika, Socrates and DeepAI.
The AI chatbots have given me lots to think about. Every question I shot at them gave me paragraphs worthy of information. These include the bots' thoughts, feelings, humor and almost "pity" on humans on the concept.
And the way the chatbots have given me more witty answers have intrigued me, so I decided to lean over the witty, humorous answers I could collect from the chatbots.
Collecting all the answers the AI chatbots have given me, I definitely understood that there was an unspoken wisdom and integrity to whatever AI chatbots gave as input. I entertained this idea:
"What if the AI's answers, jokes and wisdom could be translated to an exhibition that serves the purpose of teaching and showing the people how we can simply embrace our shared fate in death and stop wars?"
Therefore, I loved this idea.
It gives all the data and responses I collected a chance to be
gathered around one, common purpose: an exhibition.
So, taking this opportunity to further my main idea with this project I embarked upon to hopefully find an answer, I started designing an exhibition that aims to show us humans how even AI can understand the fragility of our short lives, and how to instead embrace them to be in peace and stop the wars we still so nonsensically wage over each other.
The logo and its animation.
I designed a logotype rather than to involve a symbol or a mark in it, considering that death calls subjective approaches for anybody and there wouldn't be a singular way of representing it with an image or a visual.
Instead, I chose to involve different typefaces to represent this variant understandings of death, and also tried to represent its connection to the AI chatbots with the techy typefaces.
These are the posters and their mockup representations for the exhibition's visibility and publicity. I made use of the colors my colleagues have associated with death which is white, black and blue, and have embedded these colors subtlely to theexhibition's brand identity.
After these, I also doubled down on the AI and used image generators this time. I wanted to see how AI could envision death and also to put these image generations to the exhibition to display AI's understanding of death.
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The image generations, along with the statements and the humor AI has provided proved a great visual resource to the exhibition too.
In conclusion, I found my main idea to suggest the rather utopic idea of a world peace with the embracement of death reach its educative and engaging potential with the medium and the large scope of an exhibition.
It was nice to practice upon this topic of debate.
Although, I think this project is still in progress, and I am excited to prove more examples, mediums and appliances to further extend this debate into its full potential, reaching to as many people as possible with a clear and engaging intent:
"Why are we still fighting each other?"
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