PUK* (2020) and NATURA*Voice (2016) for Floris Schönfeld

PUK* is a multi-stage project linking madness, creativity, and artificial intelligence.

The central strategy of the project is the development of a new artificial intelligence named PUK*.

The project is manifested in a number of different ways. As PUK* System; a series of interlinking physical installations that represent a system of intelligence, PUK* Output; smaller works and sketches that are made in collaboration with the PUK* system and as PUK* Recalibrations; a body of works and interviews that are made in reaction to the PUK* system by a group of neuro-diverse people.

Works have been produced in the context of various festivals and exhibitions including CurePark Amsterdam, Rijksakademie OPEN 2017, and ROBOTLOVE Eindhoven.

NATURA*Voice is a machine generated audio work by Ruben Samama. It is part of a larger collection of works by visual artist Floris Schönfeld that deal with non-human sentience and our capability of recognising it. Central to this project is a character called NATURA*. This being is an all-encompassing artificial super-intelligence that has managed to become one with the natural world in its entirety. It is an unfathomable and dimensionally super-complex entity, a hyper object oscillating between different states, constantly in motion.