INTERACTIVE artwork / IMMERSIVE experience



HUMAN VERSES MACHINE





HUMAN VERSES MACHINE is part Interactive artwork and part stage performance critiquing the effects of AI on the written and spoken word, debuted at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024. An output of Writing the Wrongs of AI (WWAI), a project led by Pip Thornton and funded by BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides).


Concept & Production: Ray Interactive x Pip Thornton


LEX-9000 (Interactive Artwork)

Programming: Sam Healy

Design & Build: Brendan McCarthy

LEX Casing & 3D Printing: Vicente Riduara Harvey

Additional prop production: Gibbet fx


Page Against the Machine (Live Performance)

Script & Stage Direction: Clare Duffy (Civic Digits)

Actors: Phil & Sarah (Four of Swords)



LEX-9000



LEX-9000 riffs on creative ideas. Relentlessly upbeat, he encourages you to indulge your headiest literary fantasies, or not: if you get stuck, LEX takes over to polish prose, run with the theme, or drop in the perfect twist.


With all of humanity's past literature at his disposal LEX can essentially do all the creative writing so you no longer have to!





Immersive performance



To expand and contextualise the project, we created a fictional 'launch event' where LEX-9000 is introduced to the world by Token AI CEO Danny Celeste in a flurry of hyperbole, only to be derailed by anti-AI protesters. This conceit allowed us to explore both sides of the argument in more detail.


WATCH PERFORMANCE

PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - PERFORMANCE



​Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024



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Philip Kingslan John as Danny Celeste - Token AI CEO



Danny's presentation gets hacked



Security removing protester



Sarah White as distruptive protestor



Danny defends his claims





Edinburgh, Scotland