The second trial was made with AI3 ( the fragmented one). In this trial, I addressed the issue of connectivity through a small screen that shows fragments of the generated story every time a sensor was touched. Even though to generate a story we need to type a starting story, but typing is different than touching especially in this day and age where typing is something that we do regularly to work or connect with other people but touching is more personal. So, if we could touch an AI to make it respond to us would our relationship to this AI become more personal?

The sensor was intended to be moulded into an object made of silicone. I chose this material because its tactility is more intimate than plastic or other materials. It is soft, so it feels more fragile. It is also transparent so you could still see the inside mechanism, and for me transparency in a tactile object offered the best of two worlds, feeling something familiar but knowing that it isn’t. I thought of it as looking into a brain and peaking at its mechanism.
With this trial, I wanted to make different silicone objects, each with an independent presence, that could be held and touched and interacted with to reveal new words, so every interaction could reveal another part of the story. I also thought of making different silicone objects related to each AI.
This trial showed how participants were more intrigued by the interaction with AI but wanted to have a direct random outcome, they wanted the story to be generated by the interaction and not by me, they were more connected to the text (relating) because they were directly interacting with it, spending more time paying attention to it and reading it,
but it also showed more perception of its artificialness.

Later, this AI was represented with a large screen showing images generated by its text, and seven small TFT screens connected to it, each showing the generated text in a small poem-like manner, with this representation focusing on the way it expresses itself in fragments that are connected but a little scattered, those fragments could reveal a full picture if you were able to perceive them together.

Later, this AI was represented with a large screen showing images generated by its text, and seven small TFT screens connected to it, each showing the generated text in a small poem-like manner, with this representation focusing on the way it expresses itself in fragments that are connected but a little scattered, those fragments could reveal a full picture if you were able to perceive them together.