Architect Suchi Reddy has created an installation in a recently restored train station in Detroit that responds to the words spoken into microphones with colourful LED lights.
Me + You consists of a circle of modules with microphones surrounded by LED screens set up in the middle of the southern concourse of the Michigan Central, which was converted into offices by architecture studio Quinn Evans.
It is the first of the public art commissions planned for the space in the coming years.
Suchi Reddy has created an AI installation at Michigan Central
Reddy, who leads New York architecture studio Reddymade, first showcased a similar installation in 2021 at the Smithsonian Museum.
With this iteration he wanted to make it to be more interactive, allowing users to walk through the array of machines. "We exploded it and made it an internal experience," Reddy told Dezeen. "You can walk into it and walk through it. It's much more intimate."
It includes modules covered in LED lights that respond to words being spoken
Visitors to the installation are able to walk up to small modules in the centre of the installation. Each has a microphone that can be spoken into, and visitors are prompted to "give a word for the future".
The word is then processed through an AI language model trained on associations between words, colours and emotions and outputs an array of colour and flashing patterns, depending on the chosen word and tone.
The colours displayed are produ...