The whole idea was basically inspired by the novel ‘Klara and the Sun’ written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The final project is an audio visualisation piece. The main character in the novel is an artificially intelligent robot named Klara, a robot whose appearance is not very different from that of a human, who could also be called a clone. She was specifically designed and produced as a kind of artificial intelligence friend for accompanying children. The child in Klara's care is called Josie, and when Josie sees Klara in the shop and buys her, she promises to give her the best possible friendship and a warm home. Klara struggles to fit into Josie's family with the vision of always wanting to fit in with human society. Klara needs to look at the sun every day in order to function properly. Every day she ponders what lies at the end of the sun. But it is not long before Klara is met with indifference, because in the end, she is just an AI robot. Klara prays to the sun every day for Josie to be healed. She always puts her human needs first and obeys her master Josie, she becomes a being with almost no ego, and I think this is the biggest difference between humanity and artificial intelligence. The whole novel explores the themes of humanity, forgetfulness, and human relationships. The ending of the novel is quite tragic, as Klara doesn't seem to realise that she is just a tool until the end and is still lost in her beautiful dream of praying for the sun to make a miracle happen, and all she gets in response is a cold abandonment. After reading this novel I was intrigued by the relationship between Klara and Josie, the human child in her care, who is like a microcosm of the relationship between AI robots and humans explored. Although it is a science fiction novel, it is a discussion of humanity and the relationship between two individuals. My final project is titled 'The Flesh and The Soul', which is also inspired by the novel, with the flesh referring to humans and the soul referring to AI robots and whether they will gradually become self-aware and have a mind, like what we call a soul. I mainly used Max Jitter to make an audiovisual piece, where the image changes according to the audio. For the visuals I have imported two 3D models, one of Rodin's sculptures 'The Thinker' and the other a 3D model I modelled myself, inspired by the fox and the rose in the novel The Little Prince. These two objects rotate infinitely in a black universe.

The visual can be adjusted to different rotation angles, clockwise or anti-clockwise, etc., by simply pointing the collection in the window and dragging the mouse. By interacting with the artwork through TouchOSC, the different elements of the screen
can be adjusted to change.