Created by Dietmar Offenhuber and Orkan Telhan, the "Reservoirs of Venice" installation explores the city as an interactive information processor. Inspired by reservoir computing, the project portrays Venice as both a data source and computational agent capable of predicting environmental futures. The installation comprises six columns, where a water computer collects real-time information about human activities affecting Venetian waterways, transforming this data through physical disturbances in water. Unlike traditional AI, it operates on lower energy consumption, demonstrating a novel blend of ecology and technology for foresight in urban environments.
Unlike energy-intensive digital AI systems, this computer is composed of the very elements it computes with, and requires only a fraction of the energy to operate.
The installation will learn to interpret its activity resulting from human movement and environmental conditions, and to predict the time of day.
Reservoir computing is a new area of computer science that aims to reduce the energy required to train deep neural networks by keeping most layers static.
The installation envisions Venice as a data source and computational agent that predicts its future.
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