Thinking Machine Chess

The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.

Until now, the thinking of the computer was hidden from the player's view. I remember some game that featured a fast-moving display of what move the computer was thinking out spelled out in chess notation (e.g. d2-d4 d7-d5) so unless you could keep up with the display you couldn't tell what the computer was thinking.