「Echoes of Materiality」
SciArt Co-Lab,
Center for Special Robots, AIRS
“Without language or body
The mind turns into silent stones”
When future intelligence overlays natural forms, the divergence
between technology and ecology dissolves. These three contemplating
stones stand as both the poetry of matter and an experiment in the
possibilities of intelligence.
Endowed with high-dimensional intelligence, the stones can sense and
detect subtle changes in their surroundings. However, they are physically
constrained, unable to truly engage with the world. Their tremors mark a
disparity between intelligence and embodiment—an attempt to edge closer
to an embodied world.
Can intelligence transcend mere cognition to become an agent? Between
materiality and information, technological system and nature, does an
intermediary form of intelligence exist? These stone agents are open
inquiries into the nature of embodied intelligence.