A Machine Learning Project

2-day exploratory installation

Provocation: How can consumers be made aware of their food’s journey from the culture in which it originated?

 

The focal point of the project is a fruit bowl that is placed on a bare table. When a person picks up a specific fruit, they hear music from the country that the fruit as imported from to Denmark. In front of them, simultaneously, they see a map visualization of the country that the fruit comes from. The experience encourages the participant to think about the journey of the fruit from its origin to the person’s hand, spark curiosity in guessing where the music might originate from, and keep picking up different fruits so they can enjoy different musical experiences.  

The project was completed using Wekinator to train various classifications of the fruits so that the machine could recognize each fruit and provide a corresponding visual and audio output.

 

Training fruits 🥭