the Liminal Space (Agent άλφα)

the Liminal Space (Agent άλφα): Not a Pipe at the Threshold of Consciousness, is a room where a synthetic humanoid, Agent άλφα, has been imbued with some level of sentience by the training of a neural model through machine learning. This digital "Qi (氣)" drives the performance of Agent άλφα whose task is to caress the synthetic representation of a pipe with its digital body. The more times άλφα touches the higher their reward. An exit is provided to the VR player towards the end of a single stanza of the Buddhist mantra in order to get to the next room. The video above switches between training, real-time, and virtual reality based footage.