hospital – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 End of Life Care Machine https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/end-of-life-care-machine/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:51:47 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3573

Dan Chen (TW/US)

End of Life Care Machine is an interactive installation consisting of an empty room, a seating area and a reception desk. Signs, medical bracelets, health information forms and other related medical products are used to transform the space into a hospital-like environment, where people go for their final rite of passage.

In this empty room lit with a single fluorescent light is a hospital bed and the Last Moment Robot by the bedside. The robot is constructed as a medical device with a padded, caressing arm and a customized recording device designed to guide and comfort the dying patient. The whole event is carefully scripted.

Viewers of this installation are invited to enter the room one at a time, accompanied by an individual dressed in a doctor’s coat. After the patient lies down beside the robot, the doctor asks permission to insert his or her arm under the caressing mechanism. The device is activated, and an LED screen reads “Detecting end of life.” At this point, the doctor exits the room, leaving the patient alone by him or herself. Within moments the LED reads “End of life detected”, the robotic arm begins its caressing action, moving back and forth, stimulating a sense of comfort during the dying process. The Last Moment Robot takes the idea of human replacement to a more extreme scale. It allows robotic intimacy technology to be re-evaluated.

The work shown here is in prototype form.

]]> Hybrid Art – M2 Hospital https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/hybrid-art-m2-hospital/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:19:29 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3215

Forensic Architecture (GB)

The amount of amateur videos and immediately available information about current political conflicts is constantly growing. These are often imprecise, however, and leave a lot of room for interpretation.

Forensic Architecture is an independent research department at Goldsmith’s College of the University of London, which is dedicated to architectural and media research. The interdisciplinary team develops navigable 3D models, which can be used to analyze events, legal violations, and human rights violations in conflict regions.

The hospital Omar Bin Abdul Aziz in Aleppo, also known as M2, was the target of fourteen bombings between June and December 2016. To be able to analyze the attacks, video and photo material taken in and around the M2 was collected and evaluated. Using the prepared 3D model, it is possible to navigate between the image and video data of the incidents and to depict the extent of the damage.

Credits

forensic-architecture.org/case/m2-hospital
Video: www.vimeo.com/203802436

Eyal Weizman (Principal Investigator), Christina Varvia (Project Coordination), Adam Noah (Research, 3D Modelling, Video Editing), Nicholas Masterton (Image Projection, Animation, Video Editing), Samaneh Moafi (Analysis, Video Editing)

collaborating organisations: Atlantic Council

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