is a creative technologist based in Los Angeles. Her expanded practice involves simple robotics, olfactive interactions, creative coding, and hardware prototyping.
Her work seeks to investigate the implications of ever-evolving technology as tools, and how our labors and ecologies shift as consequence.
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Braitenbugs
Timeline
January 2019 - April 2019
Roles + Fields
Neural network research
Cybernetics research
Methods
Python, MATLAB, Brian2 simulator package
A dive into Valentino Braitenberg’s world of synthetic
psychology, this AI project explores building artificial personalities in digital creatures to understand psychology.
Programmed using Brian 2, a spiking neural network simulator, these AI bugs display distinct personalities around food sources.
MethodsUsing a spiking network simulator in Python, coded motors that drive the bug’s motion are connected to sensors that locate the food source. The connections are modeled by a neural network, allowing variations in sensing and moving, giving the bugs distinct behaviors. In this instance, one aggressively chases and the other timidly circles.
Full research paper can be found here and code here
These braitenbugs play with the hypotheticals of digitally embodying the intricacies of our behavior.