Architectures of Performance: Public Commons, Synthetic Nature, Worldbuilding

Our studio works with Artificial Intelligence in a collaborative fashion, We create objects with their own innate tendences, propensities, and behaviors, which serve as the foundations for interaction. This interactivity, called Human-Machine-Interaction, is a critical feature in how we relate, collide, and otherwise dwell with others. By interfacing with interactive others, humans find new means of communicating and promoting new relationships, becoming participants in a Synthetic Nature. As Gordon Pask would say, this Synthetic Nature is a compound character that is alert and independent, with its own senses and proclivities. To interact with such a being is to partake in a conversation as an equal participant rather than as a dictator of one’s wills or desires to a differential electrochemical servant.