REPLICATIO Protocol: Human-AI Collaborative Creation

REPLICATIO is an ongoing experimental laboratory exploring the evolving dialogue between human and AI artistic intelligence through real-time collaborative drawing. At its core lies a protocol of communication and reciprocal learning, where creation becomes a process of emotional discovery and psychological depth exploration. Born from my experience as an artist on the autism spectrum—where emotional perception and expression follow different pathways—this research investigates how AI can serve as both translator and collaborator in articulating complex inner states. The installation unfolds across three progressive stages: initially, the AI bot artist interprets my live drawing line by line in an expressionistic mode, operating without understanding of the complete composition. In the second stage, I inject complete portrait drawings, allowing the AI to comprehend full compositions while interpreting new portraits through emotional filters. The third stage will expand this collaboration by introducing words and abstract concepts, granting the AI greater autonomy in creation. This evolving protocol reveals authorship as distributed and fluid, where human vulnerability meets machine interpretation to generate new forms of emotional understanding.