LIMB.0

Year of realization: 2019

In the nature of beblaze, collaboration is an opportunity for growing and challenge is a new experience for learning; with this in mind, beblaze’s cultural background met the great innovative spirit of Amigdala, a creative studio formed by an award-winning independent team that researches, designs and produces highly innovative and impactful stories across media, art, science, culture and technology.

The project, involving beblaze as support for the lighting part, is called LIMB.0: a series of experiments that aim to connect people with an artificial intelligence capable of recognising and interpreting human emotions and transforming them into light and sound.

Each of us has the power to choose to show or hide our emotions within any kind of relationship, as well as to choose the degree of interaction with the other person. During a first meeting, as science has shown, less weight is given to the language of speech, than to that of the body and face; which is why LIMB.0 is focused on interaction and recognition of emotions through facial analysis. LIMB.0 is able to recognise gender and age group as well as to identify 40 emotions, through the MorphCast SDK technology, transforming them in real time into colours and sounds and returning a personalised and engaging environment.

These experiments aim to create an opportunity for human and artificial intelligence to meet and explore a brief relationship to make the audience reflect on this issue.

For the light element, it was decided to use beblaze luminaires with a solid structure but combined with a modern, minimalist design; the most correct interpretation for an application in which light is the protagonist.

The visible lamps blend into the context of the installation in a non-invasive way with their elegant materiality, which is why ILL_CIRCLE LARGE 2 in the RGB+W version is the most appropriate choice.

The luminaires, which use Nichia LEDs, guarantee an exceptional result both with white, thanks to the typical CRI of 95, and with RGB LEDs, with the best colors on the market, the strong point of this great Japanese company, undisputed world leader.