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: