Tableau Machine: A Creative Alien Presence
Adam M. Smith, Mario Alfonso Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas · 2008
We present the design of Tableau Machine (TM), an AIbased, interactive, visual art generator for shared living spaces. TM is an instance of what we call “alien presence”: an ambient, non-human, embodied, intelligent agent. From overhead video in key public spaces, TM interprets its environment, including its human audience, and expresses images of its own design. This paper is a case study in the design of an art generator with deep and long-term connections to its physical and social environment.