New media exhibition debuts in Nanjing

A creative new media exhibition entitled Cosmic AI recently opened in the Jiangbei New Area of Nanjing, Jiangsu province on Saturday. Through the synergy of art, music and technology, it offers visitors the chance to establish a connection with the cosmos.

The show is the Asia premiere of Ouchhh, a Turkish multidisciplinary new media studio specializing in artificial intelligence, data-driven artwork and public art. Its previous exhibition, Poetic AI in Paris, attracted 65,000 visitors in the first 10 days and 1 million visitors in nine months.

In the present exhibition, Ouchhh has debuted its first-ever permanent artwork in Nanjing, “DataGate AI Public Art Sculpture” －a 12-meter-high data-driven AI installation that invites people from around the world to upload photos and messages to space and contact information to its official webpage.

The opening night included a live performance, specifically a concert with the listening experience enhanced by real-time visualizations of the electrical activity in the musicians' brains. For each piece, one of the musicians wore a small device on their head that detected the changes in their brainwaves and then projected the waves onto the screen, allowing the audience to "see" each musician's thoughts and feelings.