Mirror Self

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New York - Tokyo
Creative Technology
VJ & Audio-Visual
Software Engineer

ITP Blog

Collaborated with
musician / artists -
DJ Rebolledo, ASUKA, YY, HACOIRI, Kylie
Manami Sakamoto, Demsky

Performed At
Public Visuals, LVMH Tokyo Summit
WOMB, HVEN, Mitsuki, Circus

Mirror Self

December 2023

Interactive Installation

Web Application, Touchdesigner, Fabrication

Collaborator: Lois Qiuyao He
My Role:
Web application and Arduino applciation developer;
Acrylic fabrication

This project is an in-depth creation based on a self-analysis experience with GPT. Inspired by Carl Jung's concept of the shadow, this experience invites you to step up to a mirror and uncover a passage to a self-talk. Begin by facing our interactive mirror and answer questions that explore your real and metaphorical selves. Then, engage in a unique dialogue with your 'Mirror-self', an AI-powered counterpart behind the glass. We built a web application that create people's custom Mirror-self AI, to talk to them.

This project is continuously evolving, and we are in the process of developing it into an AI-Powered Narrative Therapy Game.

Technical Implementation:

There are 2 major parts: a web application that handles communication experience and a mirror tunnel physical installation that creates a visual experience.

The web application with node.js contains the following parts:

1. user interface that handles:
- storyline progressing
- user communication with gpt by speaking
- visual effects
- arduino communication

2. node.js server that handles:
- process user answers into a GPT system configuration template
- communication with GPT API and other services;then process returned response into user facing speach.

Physical installation is fabricated with wood, acrylic and LED stripe. We developed Arduino program that handles the lighting change of the installation in different storyline parts.

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