Project · 02
Fondazione Prada · Human Brains
The Conversation Machine
The project · Venice
Thirty-two screens.
One evolving mind.
Neuroscientists, psychologists, neurolinguists, and philosophers from five continents are broadcast in an assembly of thirty-two screens. Together, they investigate neuroscientific experiments and their philosophical and ethical dimensions.
- Presented by
- Fondazione Prada
- Exhibition
- Human Brains · Venice, 2022
- Role
- Executive Producer
- Format
- 32-screen immersive installation
Installation film · 01:30
Enter the machine.
0:000:00
A self-organizing system
Ideas in conversation with themselves.
Like the brain, The Conversation Machine continually responds to itself. Its interviews and moving images construct, disrupt, and assimilate their own order—turning rigorous individual perspectives into one shifting, architectural experience.
Director Taryn Simon · The Conversation Machine, Venice
Selected credits
Built across disciplines.
- Directed by
- Taryn Simon
- Executive producer
- J.J. Kelley
- Director of photography
- Jeff Tomcho
- Production company
- RadicalMedia