Deep Meaning is a speculation on a synthetic future where algorithms not only dictates our consumption reality but also becomes the voice for our spirituality. The robot preacher engages with the human pilgrams and delivers life lectures generated by a recurrent neural network trained on lecture scripts from the practical spiritual wisdom of the Patchwork Foundation.

Deep Meaning was first shown as a palm-reading ceremony. Everytime a participant put their hand on the interface, the latest tweet containing the word "future" is extracted as prompt for the AI oracle. The generated teaching is then displayed and narrated with a synthetic voice.

Exhibited at Futures Open Lab expo at Vrijplaats, Leiden, NL, Jun 3-4, 2016

In 2019, Deep Meaning was revived as a robot preacher at Beyond Human Festival 2019 at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, NL, Nov 9-11, 2019, in collaboration with Peter van der Putten (exhibition design) and Joost Broekens (robot programming).