2025 Interactive Generative Installation

Faulty Oracle

Interactive Generative Installation

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Concept

Faulty Oracle is adaptive audiovisual installation conjuring gloriously unreliable divinatory machine. Visitors pose questions through body language—gestures, movements, postures which the system interprets, misreads, and wilfully transforms. In return, the oracle delivers cryptic animated answers flickering between epiphany, nonsense, and hallucination.

By shifting interaction from language to body, Faulty Oracle gleefully dismantles any expectation of precision in human-machine exchange.

The dialogue is masterclass in miscommunication: questions are misinterpreted, wrong ones amplified, answers rarely align with intent. The oracle becomes mirror of ambiguity, where meaning emerges from error, chance, and interpretation rather than clarity. It invites participants into space of playful fallibility, reframing prophecy as dance of uncertainty and imagination.

Specifications

Premiere Occulture Conference — Malhalla, Berlin, 23-26 October 2025
Format Generative Installation
Tools TouchDesigner, Ableton Live, Python

Credits

Audio & Visual Design

Alessandro Anatrini

Collaboration

Alessandro Aresta