You Are A Strange Sensor
In 'You Are A Strange Sensor', players become a tool for a insecure computer intelligence to try understand a universe it can’t touch. It requires players to adopt a supplicate position before it, extending the interface through their own meat and organs. The intelligence commands players to use their own bodies to collect and analyze sensory information, and translate to translate how things "feel" into parsable data for the machine.
Materials: computer, monitor, keyboard, 1s, 0s, pillow, stone, metal, fabric, wires, circuits, player
Created for the Where Are Your Guts? 2026 Vector Fest residency at Interaccess.
You Are A Strange Sensor was programmed in Unity, created using liquid watercolours and a
lightbox to create the anatomical layers the creature ineptly assembles herself out of. It mimics an artificial
intelligence but intentionally does not use an LLM, and only had basic word recognition built in. Instead, it's
written to give the illusion of interaction, like in the old days.