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DATA GATE is a permanent Public Ai sculpture commissioned by the Chinese Government with a weight of 15 tons 360 Led Installation located in Nanjing.

For this project, we collaborate with Dawn Gelino as a mentor. She is an astrophysicist for NASA, exploring the diversity and habitability of exoplanets through a multi-disciplinary approach.

The installation consists of 3 parts; Form, Light, and Space. Light is the world’s first artwork based upon the idea of utilization of Machine Learning in the context of space discovery and astronomical research through NASA’s Kepler Data Sets. By using the Kepler data from NASA, the public will be able to observe the exoplanets [planets that orbit around other stars] which human life can exist in. By taking this concept one step further, Ouchhh aims for this artwork to be considered as a gate between our planet and other habitable planets around the universe. Ouchhh visualized and stylized the findings of these Neural Networks for identifying exoplanets using the dimming of the flux. The resulting work will invite visitors to plunge into the fascinating world of space discovery through immersive data sculpture. The installation will offer a poetic sensory experience and is meant to become a monument of mankind’s contemplative curiosity and profound need for exploration.

In light of the information we receive from NASA and our researching process, our solar system now is tied for the most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. Kepler’s four-year dataset consists of 35,000 possible planetary signals. Automated tests, and sometimes human eyes, are used to verify the most promising signals in the data. However, the weakest signals often are missed using these methods. Kepler has produced an unprecedented data set for exoplanet hunting.

Through the Kepler, after 9 years in space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with billions of hidden worlds. As Ouchhh Studio, we wanted to make the Kepler telescope memorable. As Nasa said, If the legendary Hubble has revolutionized our knowledge of our Universe, Kepler has revolutionized our knowledge of the exoplanets in our galaxy. It has expanded our dreams and visions. It is important for us to make you feel the feelings that one cannot feel in daily life. In our works, the integration of science and technology in the art should firstly serve the feelings of the audience. Many of us know the feeling of being touched by a piece of art. When a piece of art touches our souls, we are affected. We are teleported to a different place that is parallel universes. Art pleases the eyes; science communicates. As Ouchhh Studio, we always love to push boundaries in our works through the light of science and technology. Regarding the artwork, we used data as a brush and algorithms as a canvas which transformed the data into an aesthetic asset which can be experienced by society in different ways. We love to turn the unseen data into an art piece that could be seen by people. Our aim is to make people feel close to it by touching the data sculpture of the numerous Data made by AI, like traditional art and we think this is a nice contrast.