WMMNA: The Infinite Adventure Machine

The Infinite Adventure Machine is a proposal for a computer program which generates fairy-tale plots. The project explores the links between imagination and computation and investigates how the forms that tales and myths might take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence.

Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imagination and making up for the technology’s shortcomings.

The Infinite Adventure Machine (prototype 01) from David Benqué on Vimeo.

Having watched the video demo above, I still had a number of questions for David Benque, the designer of The Infinite Adventure Machine. Continue reading here.

Régine Debatty is an art curator and the creator of the blog We Make Money Not Art. She has also spoken at several conferences and festivals about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.