SYMBIO

SYMBIO is a co-creative platform for developing artistic intentions and creative decisions through an ongoing exchange with AI. The artist can articulate a direction, inspect the system’s provisional understanding, consider a proposal, and revise it through discussion and work with material. The platform connects conversation to saved passages, analysis, and decision history so that interpretations remain open to correction. Its central question is whether this process can support useful artistic development.

Focus and Workbench provide different views of the same session, materials, selected passages, and history. Supporting windows can show analysis or earlier work when needed. Saved interpretations retain their sources and revisions, allowing the artist to inspect how a later suggestion relates to an earlier observation.

The design asks the system to express its understanding and propose a direction that the artist can question, develop, or refuse. Records distinguish an original expression from an interpretation and a decision. Local approval remains specific to its context, and extending a preference beyond that context requires an explicit artistic choice.

The workspace documents a bounded path for adding an audio-analysis method, inspecting its checks, trying it in a session, and deciding whether to retain it. This links technical development to a concrete creative question. Mechanical checks can establish limited properties of a tool; the artist still judges whether the result is useful.

Retaining sources, revisions, and decisions makes the system’s interpretations open to examination, but this does not in itself amount to understanding artistic intention. The next development step is to examine, within specific creative tasks, when these records genuinely help artists adjust their direction.