Pierre Huyghe Mind's Eye (Annlee), 2024

Pierre Huyghe's Mind’s Eyes belongs to a series of unique three-dimensional works composed of organic and inorganic materials.

Each unique work in the series Mind’s Eye materializes such generated images into a three-dimensional form, still retaining the aspect of familiarity with the original perceived image.

The work draws on two major bodies of work: Annlee and Mind’s Eye. While previous Mind’s Eye iterations were trained on a broad range of images and descriptions, this work takes the fictional character Annlee, imagined by a human subject, as point of departure for the materialized mental images.

Produced in a collaboration between human and machine activity, the computer translates the information generated by a human subject's brain activity into images, extrapolating from what it has learned. As the person imagined Annlee, the brain activity was captured by a scanner (a so-called functional MRI, as it visualizes not just the organ but its function). By learning to recognize and read the signals, a computer then reconstructed ‘mental images’ from brain activity.