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Instead of an incorrect answer in a chat window, errors repeat through sound, machinery, and an entire exhibition space.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_phantom-protocols-a-computational-media-and-arts-hkust-28gz29.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/phantom-protocols-42b82dba/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:21.963Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"nexus-print-6e4aed3e","titleEn":"NeXus Print: Co-Creating Shared Worlds in XR With Generative AI","summaryEn":"This XR co-creation platform lets people from different backgrounds build a shared world in an immersive space, with generative AI helping translate collective imagination into scenes that can be discussed together.","whyFunEn":"Instead of one person prompting alone, the system makes world-building a social and spatial negotiation. Different ideas must coexist in the same visible environment.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_nexus_print_composite-2.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/nexus-print-6e4aed3e/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:19.791Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"model-collapse-6fd33388","titleEn":"Model Collapse: Turning AI Degradation Into Machinery, Sound, and Sculpture","summaryEn":"This locally run AI installation continually drives mechanical, sonic, and sculptural changes, giving physical form to model collapse: the degradation that can occur when models repeatedly learn from their own outputs.","whyFunEn":"A statistical failure mode becomes something you can watch and hear. Repetition slowly changes the room, making decline feel material rather than theoretical.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_1_modelcollapse-photographer-tessawiegerinck4.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/model-collapse-6fd33388/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:18.295Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"large-language-writer-6f405874","titleEn":"Large Language Writer: A Physical Writing Machine That Exposes Its Probabilities","summaryEn":"A physical writing device with a keyboard, e-ink display, and camera that gradually reveals datasets, emphasis, and generation probabilities, making the language model less like seamless magic.","whyFunEn":"The familiar act of typing becomes a performance of hidden model decisions. A tangible machine slows the process enough for uncertainty and selection to become visible.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/09/tm1026_1.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/large-language-writer-6f405874/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:17.634Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"ink-on-paper-6b72fee3","titleEn":"Ink on Paper: Watch Two Pigments Bleed Across a Web Page","summaryEn":"A browser-based fluid simulation made with vgpu. Hold and drag to switch pigments as you paint; colors spread with a paper-like absorption effect while the GPU runs thirty full-screen passes per frame.","whyFunEn":"The marks retain the partly uncontrollable character of real ink. Strokes push, seep, and mix with one another, halfway between drawing and watching a tiny fluid experiment.","coverUrl":"https://immense-jaguar-8615.edgespark.app/api/public/s/vgpu-ink/og.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/ink-on-paper-6b72fee3/","type":"play","effort":"instant","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:15.484Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"in-silico-eb2b4e44","titleEn":"In Silico: Letting Software Reimagine Natural Growth","summaryEn":"This project uses software systems and generated images to observe how biological forms transform among rules, noise, and machine vision.","whyFunEn":"Growth appears both organic and computational. 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Information keeps arriving, yet the room exposes how little time, context, and authority a human supervisor may actually have.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2026/07/vog_1727_1.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/human-overs-a-ight-the-ops-room-729cd2e7/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:10.104Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"expanded-voices-f771c786","titleEn":"Expanded Voices: Splitting and Reassembling One Human Voice With AI","summaryEn":"Using Maria Arnal's voice as its material, this project explores AI voice synthesis by dividing, recombining, and expanding one vocal identity across the boundaries of body and machine.","whyFunEn":"A familiar voice becomes a chorus of possible selves. Similarity and difference can be heard moment by moment instead of discussed only as a cloning technology.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/m_3_expanded_voices_bscdatavizgroup.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/expanded-voices-f771c786/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:05.394Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"evelynn-a5375be2","titleEn":"Evelynn: An Animated AI Character Performing Companionship","summaryEn":"An AI chat character with an animated body responds to visitors at Ars Electronica, placing the intimacy, performance, and uncertainty of companion-like agents in the foreground.","whyFunEn":"The character feels socially present, yet every response also raises a question about scripted personality, model behavior, and what the audience projects onto it.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_evelynn_screenshot_1-2.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/evelynn-a5375be2/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:04.548Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"ep-flow-ca5204fd","titleEn":"EP Flow: Let Environmental Data Become a Living Image","summaryEn":"This work layers environmental sensing, moving image, and algorithmic processing into fluid visuals, showing feedback between people, machines, and the observation of nature.","whyFunEn":"The data does not settle into a chart. It keeps moving as an image, making changes in the surrounding environment feel atmospheric and alive.","coverUrl":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ci/AL18g_QN8jXotQoQJiQlCZvIHPnEDQ2I8Xf4x2E-TrWfdXAfqh-STqXHOWOhg_wo_sDjVGiekJiArg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/ep-flow-ca5204fd/","type":"creation","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:03.884Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"emanatio-digitalis-c12427e8","titleEn":"Emanatio Digitalis: Intimacy and Autonomy Across AI and Neurotechnology","summaryEn":"This Berlin University of Applied Sciences campus exhibition uses AI, neural interfaces, and immersive simulation to discuss intimacy, identity, and autonomy, including both creative possibilities and loss-of-control risks.","whyFunEn":"Different technologies share one exhibition space, letting visitors compare how each one enters the body, senses, or social relationships.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_emanatio-digitalis-1-a-marcel-backner.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/emanatio-digitalis-c12427e8/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:03.293Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"dystopia-land-380830e4","titleEn":"Dystopia Land: A Sweet and Uneasy AI Future Park","summaryEn":"This 2025 Ars Electronica work combines generative AI, games, and Japanese popular culture into a bright but disturbing future amusement park where technological optimism collides with social anxiety.","whyFunEn":"The visual language looks playful enough to enter immediately, then keeps revealing details that make the fantasy less comfortable and more politically charged.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/09/vog_5651_1.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/dystopia-land-380830e4/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:02.373Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"divine-machinery-acafacaa","titleEn":"Divine Machinery: An AI Machine That Changes Mood When Touched","summaryEn":"Visitors touch a personified AI machine that responds by changing emotion, sound, animation, and light, shifting the relationship from issuing commands to living with a temperamental character.","whyFunEn":"A simple touch produces a whole-body mood change. The machine feels less like an appliance and more like a creature whose reactions must be interpreted.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2025/08/mobile_divinemachinery_concept-2.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/divine-machinery-acafacaa/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:01.822Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"digital-shadows-ff52ab39","titleEn":"Digital Shadows: Meet the Double Built From Your Face and Data","summaryEn":"Visitors encounter a digital double that is copied, measured, and analyzed, turning the data power behind facial recognition, deepfakes, and algorithmic profiling into an experiential theater.","whyFunEn":"The subject of surveillance becomes personal. Seeing a version of yourself manipulated and interpreted makes otherwise invisible data extraction feel immediate.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2026/07/mobile_digitalshadows_credits_gisela_klammsteiner_2c_generiert_mit_sora_ai28129.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/digital-shadows-ff52ab39/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:06:00.852Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"digital-deities-the-spirit-of-restoration-f70e6a11","titleEn":"Digital Deities: The Spirit of Restoration","summaryEn":"Visitors' images are transformed by AI and merged with forms of Taiwanese deities, generating a new character between digital double, folk belief, and a ritual of restoration.","whyFunEn":"The visitor becomes part portrait and part sacred figure. 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Every echo, mistake, and response turns vocal identity into a live contest rather than an abstract rights debate.","coverUrl":"https://ars.electronica.art/panic/files/2026/07/vog_5216_1-1.jpg","detailUrl":"https://fun.banyu.ai/en/live/bla-blavatar-vs-jaap-blonk-bb76d406/","type":"project","effort":"five_minutes","cost":"free","sitePublishedAt":"2026-09-02T12:05:52.682Z","reviewStatus":"approved"},{"slug":"aster-s-art-neuroscience-418e2cf2","titleEn":"ASTER+S > ART ^ NEUROSCIENCE: Memory, Emotion, and AI on Campus","summaryEn":"This international campus exhibition at Ars Electronica brings neuroscience-inspired art, memory research, and AI together through sensory works about emotion, uncertainty, and systemic pressure.","whyFunEn":"Research leaves the diagram and becomes sound, image, body, and space. 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