Ideal Home
理想之家
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Ideal Home is an extended-reality (XR) narrative project that explores how immigrant experiences and the evolving concept of home are reshaped through emerging technologies. Central to the story is a ghostly AI avatar that drifts through layered interfaces, landscapes, symbols, and code. Combining generative AI, immersive XR environments, and collaborative writing, the project constructs a fragmented, non-linear story world shaped by multiple voices. The artist invited immigrant writers to co-create a text archive based on their experiences of longing, memory, and displacement. A fine-tuned GPT-4 model then rewrote a unified script, blending distinct writing styles and transforming cultural symbols into something unexpected. By embedding the script into a game engine, the project blurs the line between oral history and generative fiction, offering an alternative mode of engagement. The AI avatar acts as a narrator and emotional guide, accompanying the player through flickering memory objects, dreamlike spaces, and cultural echoes. Ideal Home becomes a speculative space where collective memory and machine intelligence co-author a new language for belonging.
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