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”?*
*in: Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
Ceramic 3D printing: Jan Contala (cera.Lab)
Creative technologists: Burkart Schwaighofer, Marek Šimoník
Production assistant: Ömer Gürel
Sound artist: dilâ kirmizitoprak
AI artist: Simone Verduci
This work was realised in part within the framework from the European Media Art Platform residency program at iMAL – Art Center for digital cultures & technology with support of the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union.
The project is also co-funded by the Republic of Austria Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports and supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
