Be My Guest! is a collective mixed-reality dinner event hosted by AI. The installation rethinks an age-old gathering ritual: a dinner with friends, where an AI, named Parasite, becomes the host and co-creator of the spatial experience and physical objects. The collective dinner transforms the private setting of home into a public domain, mirroring our current condition of dwelling in multiple realities and investigating how we inhabit and interact within networked virtual spaces, and how we foster parasitic relationships with AI systems, redefining the fabric of communal gathering in the digital age.
What happens when species meet?
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a project by Cenk Güzelis & Anna Pompermaier
in collaboration with Valdemar Danry
Production assistant: Ömer Gürel
Ceramic 3D printing: Jan Contala ceraLAB
Creative technologist: Burkart Schwaighofer, Marek Šimoník
Sound artist: Dilâ Kirmizitoprak
Photo: Kaka Lee, Me AndOther Me
The project is realized with the support of Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, through the European Media Art Platform and the support of iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, the ./studio3, Department of Experimental Architevture, University of Innsbruck and the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group. The project is co-funded by the BMKOES and the Goethe Institute.