CRAFTING NARRATIVES
Real-time Generative Storytelling Through Tangible AI

SHIPRA BALASUBRAMANI

Project Description

This project investigates the potential of Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) as an installation that engages the Gond Tribe’s Creation Myth as an interactive storytelling experience. This project looks at the potential benefits of AI and contributes to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Generative Storytelling, Tangible User Interface (TUI), Artificial Intelligence, and Human-Artificial Intelligence collaborative storytelling.

By blending traditional storytelling elements with real-time visual generation, the interactive audio-visual installation contributes to the exploration of new modes of narrative expression, audience participation, and engagement. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the tangible objects, curating their own arrangement of objects; they become active participants in shaping the narrative journey. By integrating generative AI and physical artefacts, visitors are invited to co-create and collaborate with AI to reveal the Gond Tribe’s Creation Myth scene by scene. The use of technology helps in creating a digital format of the narrative, along with the tangible objects creating a multi-sensorial, participatory narrative experience for the visitors.

This installation’s interactive nature serves as a space for visitors to engage with the generative AI in the context of the creation myth narrative which provides opportunities for a reflective understanding of generative AI models. Through experimentation and exploration, visitors are invited to critically evaluate outputs, draw parallels to other creation myth narratives and understand the capabilities and limitations of generative AI technologies. The installation also creates opportunities for utilizing generative AI tools in unconventional contexts, thereby pushing the boundaries of these technologies.