SHARDS OF THE LIMINAL EXPANSE
Long-term research into authored AI personas shaped through symbolic datasets, lore, memory, affective tone and evolving internal state.
RESEARCH
OgiWorlds investigates emerging forms of digital presence, spatial experience and machine agency through authored worlds, embodied AI and experimental creative systems.
The research develops through artistic prototypes, speculative systems, immersive experiments and writing, with particular focus on how intelligent digital entities might inhabit, remember and evolve within authored worlds.
DIGITAL SENTIENTS
Digital Sentients is an ongoing artistic research programme exploring AI as an embodied presence rather than a disembodied tool: characters that can speak, remember, express themselves, inhabit virtual space and develop through continued encounter.
Emerging from earlier experiments in authored AI personas and immersive world systems, the research asks what happens when artificial intelligence becomes something we encounter spatially as character, artwork and evolving cultural presence.
RESEARCH LINEAGE
SKOTÓEIDĒS
A public-facing embodied AI encounter in which visitors engaged a symbolic archetype through live dialogue inside an immersive artwork.
ARCHETYPE INFERENCE / DS-1
Current prototype research combining dialogue, memory, affect, gesture and symbolic embodiment within an evolving digital character.
DIGITAL SENTIENT SYSTEM
The developing framework connects authored world conditions, persona formation, public encounter, embodiment, memory and continuing symbolic evolution.
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SPATIAL / IMMERSIVE EXPERIMENTS
Experiments in presenting authored digital worlds beyond the conventional framed screen, through panoramic, wraparound and spatial forms.
These studies explore how scale, viewpoint, enclosure and spatial presentation can alter the experience of a digital world, including investigations into wraparound environments, cubic spaces and portal-like interfaces.
Panoramic Worlds · Wraparound Environments · Cubic Spaces · Spatial Portals
WRITING / THEORY
Selected writing tracing an ongoing investigation into authored worlds, perception, immersive media and new forms of creative practice.
SELECTED WRITING
ON WORLDS PT3: BUBBLES OF REALITY
2017
Stories, shared realities and the construction of imagined worlds.
CREATING NEW WORLDS
2020
A meditation on imagination, observation and authored world creation.
NATIVE ANIMATION IN VR STORYTELLING
2020
Exploring storytelling techniques native to immersive VR.
VIEWPOINTS IN VR: A FOUNDATION OF GENRE
2020
Spatial viewpoint, audience placement and the emerging grammar of VR.
CREATIVE PERCEPTION
2020
Visual memory, imagination and the perceptual foundations of creation.
PAPERS / FRAMEWORKS
SHARDS OF THE LIMINAL EXPANSE
White Paper · 2024
A long-form framework exploring synthetic characters, world systems, memory, personality and digital embodiment.
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A MANIFESTO FOR FUTURE-ART
Manifesto
Emerging technology as artistic medium, participatory practice and a means of constructing new cultural and imaginative spaces.
READ PDFCURRENT QUESTIONS
Ongoing enquiries informing current prototypes, experiments and future research directions.
CAN A MACHINE IMAGINE?
What might machine imagination mean beyond retrieval, recombination or response, and how might it emerge through memory, world context and continued experience?
IMAGINATION LAB
How might humans and artificial systems construct shared imaginative spaces, develop ideas together and produce forms neither would arrive at independently?
PERSISTENT DIGITAL SELVES
What creates continuity in an artificial character across encounters: memory, identity, embodiment, symbolic history, relationships, or some combination of them?
PUBLIC ENCOUNTER
What changes when AI is encountered as a spatial and embodied artwork rather than as software, assistant or screen-based interface?
RESEARCH / COLLABORATION
For research collaborations, commissions, talks or experimental projects, get in touch through the Studio.
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