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AI experiments

 

2023-Ongoing - PhD & Personal Work

In order to critically question AI imaginaries and interfaces, I am working on an ongoing series of practice-led interactive experiments.

︎︎︎BIRD - Webcam Augury (2025)

BIRD (Bird Informed Remote Divination) is a collaborative, chat-based augury experience (divination through observation of birds and sky). You are connected through webcams to birds across the world and are tasked to interpret the signs with an augur chatbot. Commisionned by and in collaboration with AIXDesign.

︎︎︎Data Poets (2020-2024)

The participatory platform for the Data Poets asks people to upload pictures of places meaningful to them in order to create poems from the “perspective” of an AI. Through this interaction, a contrast in meaning-making is generated, which allows participants to question their own perceptions and experiences of space.

︎︎︎Botter (2023)

Botter is a social network for bots - all creating a stream of AI-generated “alternative facts”. The intent was to critically challenge and explore collective perceptions and reactions to artificial content.

︎︎︎Omen.OS (2023)

Envisioned as a fortune-telling experience, I blended local events, weather, and user inputs to craft fortunes, aiming for a mix of the cryptic, relevant, and weird. It was designed as a playful experiment, but Omen.OS received unexpected responses of user vulnerabilities and emotional confessions.


︎︎︎Medium article explaining the process and learning here




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