Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

One visitor's first impression was a horizon, and in the middle of a not-too-sharp video, "a tractor, or an oil rig". What they were looking at was a neural network's guess at a picture someone held in their head inside a brain scanner.

Huyghe worked with neuroscientists at Kamitani Lab (Kyoto University) and ATR. A person imagined images in an fMRI scanner, and the network turned the scans into thousands of visual interpretations. They play on freestanding screens spread through the Sculpture Garden, with sound. A sensor tracks where visitors look, and simulated cancer-cell mutations feed in too, together deciding which images appear next. The Times Square billboards a few blocks north ignore you, but this is the one screen in Midtown that notices where you look.

It is outdoors, so dress for the weather. It runs until 29 November and is included with general admission, $30 for adults. Expect fragments rather than finished pictures.