Since the mid 2010s social networking companies like Facebook and search engines like Google have implemented AI tools to improve and expand the capabilities of their ubiquitous platforms. This represents an important shift in our relationships to these technologies and poses questions for how we define our future interconnections (personal, social, political) with the digital realm. Inhabiting the Invisible is an interactive and immersive media installation that takes an aesthetic approach to defining our relationship with this realm - can we perceive these changes in both a visual and insightful sense? Have these changes informed how the platforms perceive us?
Inhabiting the Invisible explores the creative opportunities that these AI tools afford through many cycles of prototyping within a creation-as-research methodology.
Although the installation does not seek to provide any single answer to these questions, the intention is to provoke a response in the mind of the participant. This work, incorporating the AI tools used by the platforms, invites and even perhaps coerces participants to enter it and look into the digital realm.