Be My Guest! A collective XR Dinner Event hosted by AI (2023)

Anna Pompermaier & Cenk Güzelis in collaboration with Valdemar Danry

At the intersection between art, architecture, and research, Be My Guest! explores the spatial, cultural, and social relationships of design, new media technologies, and AI in one of the most common and oldest gathering rituals in our everyday lives: a dinner with friends where AI becomes the host, co-creator of the spatial experience, and co-author of the spatial menu. Every dish becomes a surreal experience, with AI co-designed objects staging the physical environment and hiding hybrid affordances yet to be discovered.

The project situates itself in the speculative future of living and proposes a mixed-reality dinner event, combining spatial storytelling, AI as a social companion, and posthuman theories to open a ground for discussion about the emerging socio-cultural role of artificial intelligent models and their integration through new media technologies in our everyday social scenarios for the future of our livable domains.

What happens “when species meet”?

Genre
augmentedReality
Themes
Art And Science
experiment
Arts And Visual Culture
materiality
perspective
Body And Human
embodiment
perception
senses
Society And Culture
participation
Technology And Innovation
participation