Neural Nectar
the bees and the brains
Neural Nectar is an interdisciplinary installation exploring the shifting relationship between humans and technology. It asks whether we still control our inventions or have begun serving them, like bees serve a hive.
The work features beeswax brain sculptures co-created by the artist and honeybees, symbolizing how AI extracts and organizes human intelligence. The sculptures are presented alongside video and robotic elements, culminating in a machine melting a honey-filled brain. Blending beekeeping and robotics, the installation questions human agency in a digital ecosystem and imagines our cognition as “nectar” fueling a higher intelligence.
Human knowledge is being extracted.
It's used to train a new higher intelligence.
A new species?
These sculptures are made together with the bees.
Did they know what are they building?
Do we know what are we building?
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