Thirty-two luminous screens suspended throughout The Conversation Machine installation

Fondazione Prada · Human Brains

The Conversation Machine

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.

Client
Fondazione Prada
Platform
Human Brains · Venice, 2022
My role
Executive Producer
Format
32-screen immersive installation

Enter the machine.

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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 with project collaborators inside The Conversation Machine installation

Director Taryn Simon · Venice · Director of Photography Jeff Tomcho

Built across disciplines

Director
Taryn Simon
Executive producer
J.J. Kelley
Director of photography
Jeff Tomcho
Production company
RadicalMedia