Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
The Oracle: A Wall of Machine-Written Futures
A performance installation asks an AI to forecast a visitor’s future, then adds the forecast to a growing wall of predictions.
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- BritCHI 2026 installation participants
- Worth noticing
- The page reports a hundred futures on the wall and says nothing visitors tell the Oracle is kept.
Field notes
The described interaction asks a visitor to sit while an AI supplies a plausible life forecast; the output joins a wall of similar futures. The page says nothing told to the Oracle is kept, though the extracted copy does not explain the installation’s technical setup. It also links a BritCHI 2026 paper, “Mollified by Mundane Machines: GenAI and the Rise of Authorship Psychosis,” credited to Andy Dow, David Colborn-Clark, and Matthew Pointon.
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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