News to Image is the simulation of a thought pattern that is exposed in real time to headlines of breaking news and generates a representative image of its understanding of the topic. The intention is to replicate the natural process that occurs within the human mind when it reads a headline and generates an initial summary before going deeper into the topic. By replicating this process on three different screens, each dedicated to a different continent (America, Europe, and Asia), it also creates a comparison of media communication in various parts of the world, demonstrating how our perception of a news is linked to who describes it and to how it has ben described.
Every day, when we scroll through news headlines, our minds instantly paint a picture of what we expect the story to be about. This mental image is shaped by what we already know about the topic and how the headline describes it to us. Whether we're familiar with the subject or not, our mental picture can be detailed or simple, bassd on our background knowledge. This shows how our understanding of news is influenced not only by the content itself, but also by our own interpretations and experiences.
The way news is interpreted is heavily influenced by the variety of content available and how it's presented. For this reason the differences of interpretation are even more clear when we compare the media communication of different geographical areas, such as America, Europe, and Asia. By analyzing which news stories are considered significant and how they're conveyed, we gain insight into the distinct priorities and goals of each of these systems. Above all, we notice the difference in communication. These three areas have been selected because they can provide a more complete picture given their evident media power. Starting from this, the same process could be applied to each of the individual seven continents, to explore and visualize even more deeply the differences among them.
This process can be replicated through artificial intelligence, which, being developed by humans, inherently carries biases and operates with a finite dataset. In this context, AI serves as a model of human thought processes. When exposed to a news headline for the first time, the AI goes through a similar process. It generates an image that encapsulates its understanding on the topic, based on the data it has been trained with.
Outcomes created with AI
The exhibition involves three screens that alternately present new images generated by artificial intelligence based on real-time news headlines from X. At the moment of generating these images, an emotionless voice reads out the news headline, capturing the user's attention during the transition and emphasizing the beginning of the automatic generation process. Each screen updates periodically, and the three screens are staggered in time to allow the user to focus on each continent at different times. The entire experience can also be adapted for use with a single projector that projects three different frames, one for each continent.
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One projector option