Looking Outwards 1: Santiago X

Santiago X Flux Room

I admire this project because it utilizes technology’s advantage of auto-generation in order to create a more immersive and varied experience. The variation and illusion of natural spontaneity within a certain context can be very well emulated in this Flux Room because its injecting elements into the room that directly affect an experiencer’s senses.
Santiago X, a technology and installation artist, created it. I can’t find how long it took, but I assume 1-3 years since it probably needed a deadline for its showing in WNDR Museum, Chicago in 2021.
He most definitely wrote custom scripts, at least, because its a customized AI and machine learning system that algorithmically generates sounds, visuals, and scents in this Flux Room.
Definitely seems like one of those recent trendy immersive projection experiences like Artechouse or Van Gogh Exhibit, but it builds on those by adding more ways of sensuous interaction.
As a futurist, Santiago precisely wants to imagine and present hyper-real futures that rupture what we can presently conceive in reality. Thus, like Artechouse, there’s infinite possiblity for the types of unimaginable auto-generated visuals, but also sounds and scents that are utterly unrecognizable but in the liminal space between existing and not-existing.
Provide a link (if possible) to the work, and a full author and title reference. https://santiagox.com/flux-room
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