Thousand Lives
Simulation by Ian Cheng.
2023
Role: Production Designer, Environment Artist.
An
agent model that strives to integrate Thousand’s urgent inner turtle needs with the external affordances in Chalice’s messy apartment. Objects in the environment have no prescribed meaning, and Thousand’s AI model must learn what is of relevance to its needs, construct motives to pursue objects of relevance, integrate feedback when its expectations misalign with reality, and just keep going.