Imaginary Friend
Grant Awarded: $10,000
About
Independent artist Danielle Freakley proposed building and exhibiting an Extended Reality system using artificial intelligence to explore the psychosocial aspects of imaginary friends. These characters would be drawn from real life imaginary friends and would be brought to life through AI within a world that would have elements from real WA (real places where people interact with their imaginary friends) patchworked together in the digital world.
Independent artist Danielle Freakley proposed building and exhibiting an Extended Reality system using artificial intelligence to explore the psychosocial aspects of imaginary friends. These characters would be drawn from real life imaginary friends and would be brought to life through AI within a world that would have elements from real WA (real places where people interact with their imaginary friends) patchworked together in the digital world.
Independent artist Danielle Freakley proposed building and exhibiting an Extended Reality system using artificial intelligence to explore the psychosocial aspects of imaginary friends. These characters would be drawn from real life imaginary friends and would be brought to life through AI within a world that would have elements from real WA (real places where people interact with their imaginary friends) patchworked together in the digital world.
Impact
Danielle was successful in using her $10,000 grant to create a taster of the project. It is installed in the Museum of WA where audiences can fill out a form about their imaginary friend on the touchscreens and then draw them with the stylus provided. The drawing is then transposed into watercolour with AI and added to the archive. Danielle plans to create additional archive projects in the future and at other locations.
Danielle was successful in using her $10,000 grant to create a taster of the project. It is installed in the Museum of WA where audiences can fill out a form about their imaginary friend on the touchscreens and then draw them with the stylus provided. The drawing is then transposed into watercolour with AI and added to the archive. Danielle plans to create additional archive projects in the future and at other locations.
Danielle was successful in using her $10,000 grant to create a taster of the project. It is installed in the Museum of WA where audiences can fill out a form about their imaginary friend on the touchscreens and then draw them with the stylus provided. The drawing is then transposed into watercolour with AI and added to the archive. Danielle plans to create additional archive projects in the future and at other locations.