I/O; video courtesy of Scott Bezek

I/O (input/output) was an interactive experience designed to highlight our love/hate relationship with technology as it can act both as an isolating factor, and a uniting platform. To highlight this divide, I/O resembled a physical barrier, where one side featured an "input" wall where visitors manipulate a series of on/off boxes. On the other side of the barrier was an "output" split-flap display wall that updates in real time based on how visitors manipulate the input boxes. Participants on the input side and viewers on the output side together discovered the correct input combination that reveals a hidden message.

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After the exhibition was completed, the team revisited the design of I/O and turned it into Solair-E, an interactive AI based artwork that will answer all your questions. Unlike I/O, the input for Solair-E is text based and comes from a terminal across the split flap display. The user enters a question at the terminal and the split flaps respond in real time by generating an answer to the question. Solair-E is exhibited at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.