Frankenstein AI
Summary
Influenced by the collaborative engagement of the Ouija Board Planchette, these controllers are designed to be used by 2 users together, to glide over a touch-sensitive screen. It allows the users to engage with each other, to collectively arrive at an answer to the questions being asked. Users must rest their fingers upon the perforated metal components of the controller in order for it to be sensed by the technology.
This project was shown at Sundance Film Festival 2018, and was created by a large group of artists, producers and technologists. I was responsible for the planchettes. Please see project website for full list of people involved in the project. Frankenstein AI is an experimental theatrical experience with its own AI entity that is learning from its visitors about the world.
The planchettes were made with wooden "O"'s from a craft store, embedded with perforated metal sheets, spray painted with a metallic silver color. The perforated sheets with connect with conductive fabric to the foot of the planchettes, and when all 4 surfaces were touched at the same time, the feet would register as finger points on the screen. The program would look for four fingers that were evenly spaced out on the screen, thus recognizing the planchette.
image from indiewire.
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Exhibitions/Demos
- 2018 Sundance Film Festival “New Frontier” Exhibit, Park City, Utah [site]
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