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Inter(mediate) Spaces by Chloé Lee, work-in-progress

INTER(MEDIATE) SPACES

2024.-2025
Extended Reality Installation, Living Lab Series, Web XR
Runtime: 25-30 minutes

This project is in an early development and research phase. It has received public funding from Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg through 2025. It was a finalist in Dok Leipzig’s November 2023 Exchange XR, a pitch presentation showcase, as well as The Portal’s inaugural International Delegates pitch forum at Re.publica in May 2024.

Inter(mediate) Spaces (IMS), a generative AI virtual reality (VR) experience, brings two people in separate physical locations together, to walk through and shape a shared, ever-shifting virtual space, where they see the impact that their words and dynamics have on the environment around them. 


This experimental fourth place explores and creates new ways of sharing space, immersing us in 3D reflective and abstract worlds that ‘glitch’, blur and morph. A collaged, impossible cityscape heterotopia, with wild green patches pushing through crevices of highrises. As participants walk on an abstract 3D scaffolded walkway, the material of our avatar bodies reflect back to us our emergent world, a curved mirroring of reality or unique lens through which we perceive the world. As they  recall memories aloud, walls shift, revealing a creek, not unlike the one that they  described. Waxy leaves of loquat trees sway, voices echo, and we see shared landscapes and future projections. 


IMS uses new technology to visualize and understand complex data processing systems that shape our daily lives but  are often obscured. Drawing inspiration from Beth Coleman's Reality Was Whatever Happened, IMS approaches AI as a collaborator, where different ways of 'thinking’ join to envisage new, otherly landscapes and possibilities that embody the diverse dreams and visions of individuals and places around the world. 


Developers and city planners have the power to create spaces that are conducive for community building, but should they alone imagine and decide what others’ shared spaces look like? Inter(mediate) Spaces says “No”,  and does it in two parts: a series of in-person Living Labs in New York, Montreal and Berlin and a traveling VR installation. 

Inter(mediate) Spaces concept art. Two people standing on opposite sides of a virtual space.
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