Tomas Sjögren
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The Oracle of Akadon Realm (2021)

3-channel interactive wood, video and audio installation.




An ancient hay fence embedded with modern technology becomes an interactive interface. Through movement and touch, this hybrid machine allows us to engage in a real­time dialogue with AI avatars dressed in Darlecarlian folk costumes that mirror our gestures, blurring the boundaries between physical presence, virtual representation, and digital identity.

These mirror avatars also have their own agenda, and the viewer is invited to have a narrated conversation with them about nature, technology, magic, love, God, digitalism and AI, to name a few. The conversations are built on actual conversations that I undertook with an AI chatbot.

Renderings from the project were used to create Hellburner Diaries, a short film for Pori Film Festival 2021: