A generative AI VR installation that reexamines technology’s promise of connection.

Inter(mediate) Spaces” (IMS) is a generative AI VR installation that reexamines technology’s promise of connection. By experimenting with a new community-driven AI system as a worldbuilding tool, we explore new ways to more meaningfully connect in digital spaces. How might we together use this inherently biased tool to reenvision an algorithmically-mediated future?
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Two people enter one generative VR space where their realtime conversation shapes the intimate, ever-evolving world around them. Their conversation is facilitated by a voice asking questions around memory and the future of their communities.
“What did you last dream about?” You reply. Walls shift, revealing a creek, not unlike the one you described. A highrise becomes an open air market. Waxy leaves of loquat trees sway. We see shared visions, made by and for each community, next to images from typical AI generators.
In doing so, IMS challenges the status quo of popular AI systems by making our approach transparent and introducing data and collaboration from diverse groups around the world. How do we share the responsibility of holding space collectively when, ultimately, the space that arises from our interaction is the result of what we, together, create?
A series of community workshops, "Reflections" will be held in three diverse communities around the world. Workshops will culminate in a community archive and participants’ images, audio and writings will become the basis of our custom AI system used to create visual landscapes  in  Inter(mediate) Spaces.

Our first community group is Tak Wah Kung Fu Club in Chinatown, Manhattan. In addition to Tak Wah Kung Fu Club, we will be working with two other community groups in Berlin and Singapore.