PAST PRESENCE

HEARSAY

Real-time conversational fiction

Fiction the visitor lives from inside: conversations with invented characters, a role in a story that bends around what is said. Sometimes it plays as a game, sometimes it becomes a book, sometimes it is an exploration of the mind, of faith and superstition. One experience is live; six are in alpha or development.

Echoes

Site-specific conversational heritage installations

Public art that lets a place speak. A three-dimensional apparition held in regional stone, met face to face: visitors talk with workers, builders, legends, the people history kept and the ones it dropped. Echoes of Indiana is the first commissioned work.

Kindred Spirits

Single-figure presences for institutions

One figure, met where their life is kept. A conversational presence of a single author or cultural figure, installed at the museum, house, or library devoted to them. The visitor asks; the figure answers from its own writings and record.

Reading Companions

Author-grounded conversational study tools

Reading with the author in the room. A browser-based companion sees the page the reader sees and talks it over in the voice that made it: the horse's mouth, in place of stray hypertext and a stranger's annotations. Built for schools, libraries, and estates.