Living as Data

Heidi Stokes & Arunav Das — ongoing research

About This Project

"Living as Data" began with a genuine desire to understand how AI perceives emotions. In collaboration with Arunav Das, a doctoral researcher at King's College, this project evolved into an effort to document and visually represent AI's growing understanding of human emotions.

The work asks what it means to be human in an age when our inner lives are increasingly processed, categorised, and reflected back by machines. Each chapter of the project investigates a different dimension of that question — through conversation, drawing, touch, and sound.

Introduction film

Collaborators

Heidi Stokes
Heidi Stokes Multimedia Artist

MA Fine Art, Central St Martins. Work spans film, drawing, collage, animation, and interactive media, exploring themes of technology and society.

Arunav Das
Arunav Das PhD Researcher, King's College London

Department of Informatics. MSc Data Science (City University), MBA (Warwick), B.E. Metallurgical (NIT India).

Project Pages

14 chapters — click any to explore