I Light U Up

I Light U Up is an interactive installation and game, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and light. It explores light as environmental information that drives the emergent narrative. This installation features a physical artificial flower complex, with Light Dependent Resistors (LDRs) at its core, and a virtual narrative world displayed in digital media. Through interaction with the physical flower complex, the audience can use light to communicate with different virtual beings “living” inside the LDRs. The environment surrounding the flower complex shapes events in the virtual world in real-time, while the agential sensors understand and react to their surroundings by sensing light. This work embraces ambiguity in data sensing, much like the misunderstandings that occur in human conversations.  And in each recursive process of human interaction with the sensors, the narrative in the virtual world is gradually enriched. The playful experience is also a poetic representation of the light situation of its environment: not presented as data but is integrated into an imaginative space that influences the organic growth of the digital beings. In this narrative world, the audience does not just judge the data, but reads, understands and is open to interpret the emotions involved. Two video explanations of this work:Interactive artwork trailer videoDigital experience recording