An exploration of our relationship to emerging AI, “AI: A Love Story” follows the online journey of someone who, in every respect, lives in their phone. Through their online posts, we see their desire to “friend” AI and realize, through AI, their full personhood online. “AI: A Love Story” grapples with our uncertain relationship with AI and the evolving technologies … Read More

walk is an interactive narrative drawing heavily from choose-your-own adventure books. Written with Ink, choice drives the story as you explore the possible routes through the park with your dog, picking up strange items along the way, and speaking to even stranger people. You might not end up in quite the state you started, but can it really be so … Read More

Infinity Spin is a virtual environment for 360° poetry, which is accessible by mobile phones. The application shows a line of text, which surrounds users like a panorama. Hereby the text line can never be seen as a whole but only in sections on the user’s displays and is revealed by rotating around oneself’s body axis. By reading the sentence, … Read More

UVB-76 is a work of electronic literature that cannot fully exist without digital support. The text cannot be read passively: it must be executed. Without execution, there is no poem, even if the poem is already there. The reader must adjust, test, fail, and persist in order for meaning to emerge through a simulated transmission interface. The work explores the … Read More

“where am i in the world?” is a poetic narrative composed of reflections, dreams, and materials gathered during our wedding journey to the island of Ærø, Denmark. We married in a hurry, for sometimes many years of living in a country are as airy as a few. What I’m saying is, there are two ways of looking at a European––one … Read More

Choke On your Forked Tongue is a satirical work that aims to poke fun at the current social media climate. Figureheads like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg own the new town squares where we meet and converse cross nations. These town squares have turned into the personal political playground for the ultra wealthy. Satire’s like my work aim to show … Read More

“Empire Retold” is an exploratory, story-driven, Augmented Reality (AR) experience that explores fictional audio narratives inspired by an all-but-forgotten historical event that took place in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Three narratives each provide a different understanding of Glasgow’s history. Players find geo-located nodes at meaningful locations where they discover audio storytelling and ‘capture’ AR visual content. Stories use archival data as … Read More

“Swann’s Song” is a visual novel about an old man waiting for the a swan’s song. After a while, a boy reaches out and they start talking about the passage of time, grief, climate change and the way we deal with emotions and death. It’s a poetry/theatre hybrid that places focus on the player’s voice rather than giving a straight … Read More

Plague Season was Hyphae’s (then Jigsaw Foresight’s) playful provocation to examine what we’ve learned in the five years since Covid-19 lockdowns radically changed the way we all lived. Plague Season served several purposes: it allowed us to cast back to where we’d been at the time of a great plague and think about how far we’ve come – and how … Read More

Forget This Good Thing is an attempt – by turns playful and deadly serious – to harness a fundamental force of the universe to turn the world’s 6.6 billion smartphones into real-time oracles. This original work by Matthew Dublin (software design and execution) and Colin Dodds (words) uses random-number-generating technology to harness the idiosyncrasies of synchronicity and create a wholly … Read More