Mienophone is created by Zhe Wang and Daniel Heitz in collaboration, since 2019. 

Music is controlling our emotions. It sometimes feels a bit like being a string puppet, while music is the puppet master. It can make us dance or sink into sadness.

As Machine Learning Algorithm is becoming better at reading human emotions, can we use this technology to reverse this power of control? How does music sound like if it was directly controlled by our expressions and not the other way around? How would we react? Would it perhaps reinforce the emotion? Can technology help us to become more aware and better understand our emotions? And how does all this challenge the purpose of art and the role of the artist in the future?

These are the questions the artists explore with the Mienophone. In the exhibition, the artist duo is having a dialogue through different media: the Mienophone installation, video works and photos.

The project is funded by KARIN ABT-STRAUBINGER Stiftung

Technical support: Berlin Glassworks