Buried Words
Interactive Game (2023)
Medium: Keyboards, TouchDesigner custom program, AI generative tools
Stimulated by today's society, scientific and technological civilization develops rapidly. While people are enjoying the achievements, language and writing have become victims of ambition. The human culture it carries also disappears along with the language and writing. While pursuing a higher civilization, people should respect the diversity of languages and learn to protect them so that the culture can survive forever.
Inspiration: Nowadays, artificial intelligence is becoming more and more sophisticated, and many artificial intelligence tools such as chatgpt are mainly trained in the English language. Back in the old times, In the flames of war, languages have become the victim. Ancient Egyptian Sacred Script, Sumerian Cuneiform Writing, and Mayan writing disappeared along with their civilization. Today, the limitations of many artificial intelligence applications may also lead to the demise of some minority languages.
Image generation and interaction techniques:
I used an AI image generator(Playground) to generate the pictures of the map and rivers by writing prompt, which also requires me to use scripts to communicate, but this time with an artificial intelligence, and that could be a trend in the future. Programming in TouchDesigner to make the traced scripts turn into particles, Use AI to generate a video based on the generated image by writing prompt, then combine the video and the scripts in TouchDesigner
How to play: Use a keyboard to control the spread and convergence of particles. When the language is being attacked, the particles spread out, the words gradually disappearing. When the language is being defended, the particles gather together, the words getting clearer. If your language disappears eventually, you lose.