Hypnotic AI: The Altered States of Media Matter

This chapter probes the idea of the artificial mind as a condition distinct from human categories of thinking and sees what it is. For that purpose, it describes the experiment of Hypnotic AI—an art installation in which the user interacts with a self-learning intelligent system by means of hypnotic induction. As such, it discusses AI’s “latent” or “post-material” depth emerging in the AI-user hypnotic loop. It also analyzes media material environments in connection with media material schemes, media physical structuring and media usability based on the models of altered state.