Supraorganism, developed using data collected from a community of bees, is a reactive installation composed of robotic glass sculptures animated by a machine learning system (an artificial intelligence).
Today the deduction techniques of machines allow us to interpret a large amount of data and observe the world differently. Based on the data captured by the artist, a network of artificial neurons has been trained. Supraorganism is a work about the memory of bees and their collective intelligence. The creation process is calculated from observed and computer-analysed behavioural patterns. This machine learning system, developed specifically for the project, generates predictions, allowing us to see a glimpse of possible futures.

About twenty robotic glass sculptures, suspended on a stainless steel structure, unfold in the space. The modules, animated in real-time by the AI, come to life as a result of their connected systems. Thanks to its ambient sensors, the installation reacts subtly to the detection of visitors and adapts to their presence like an artificial life form. The light and sound of this new organised being react in symbiosis, while surprising each other and colliding in a structured, organic and floating constellation.

Borbála Szalai