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Type: Video Interactive

Topic: AI Personal contemporary

Keywords: anime Unity game engine neural engineer psychotropic foods anomie

Materials: Digital animation, Unity game engine

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Artist: Ian Cheng

Year: 2021-2022

Life After BOB (LAB) is a 50-minute anime movie built in the Unity game engine. It imagines a future where the internet is integrated into our nervous systems, psychotropic foods blur physical and psychic realities, and AI entities co-inhabit human minds. The Chalice Study, episode one, follows Dr. Wong, a neural engineer, who installs an experimental AI named BOB into his 10-year-old daughter's nervous system. BOB is designed to guide Chalice through life's challenges, but as BOB... (full text available in original project page)

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