TendAR

Director:

Institute History

  • 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Description

This piece is housed at New Frontier at The Ray. To find time slots and purchase tickets beginning January 16, click here.

Through the simple premise of a friendly company that wants to build a database for how humans respond emotionally to stories, TendAR takes two users on a journey with a cute, fun, little AR fish. The experience then evolves into a full-blown encounter with an AI that becomes sentient, and the ability to accurately judge human emotion is brought into question for the AI—and everyone else.

— S.F.

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