What happens when AI does not speak, instruct, or interrupt—but simply notices you? This project explores that question through an interactive installation that invites subtle, serendipitous encounters between people and artificial intelligence.
Developed as part of a brief to design a space for unexpected interaction with AI, the installation transforms a passage between classrooms into a responsive environment. Rather than treating the corridor as a neutral in-between, the space reacts to presence, movement, and gesture, turning transition into experience.
Using TouchDesigner and AI-based inputs, three distinct visualisations respond to people and their hands. Vertical light strips activate as visitors move through the space, creating the impression of an AI entity embedded within the room—one that mirrors, mimics, and quietly follows human motion. The visuals rely on lines and particle-based abstractions, playing with the idea of how AI might perceive us through patterns, motion, and data rather than recognizable human forms.
Interaction remains intentionally discreet. There are no instructions or interfaces. AI reveals itself only through movement and gesture, encouraging discovery instead of performance.
The project draws on principles of postphenomenology to explore how AI can exist as a background presence rather than a focal object, shaping experience without demanding attention. In doing so, it reframes AI not as a tool or character, but as an ambient participant in shared space.
