Sylvia - 2021 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology
ITP's Alum, Ziv Scheinder, Receives 2021 receives Lumen Prize for Art and Technology - Congratulations!
Instagram is full of wannabes, but there was only one Sylvia. Co-written with AI, Sylvia is a storytelling experiment that disrupted the virtual influencer landscape. Unlike most of her virtual peers, who are designed to appear young forever, Sylvia was designed to age rapidly. The project was posted to Instagram as @myfriendsylvia from July to November 2020, and featured images of Sylvia as she aged five decades, from 30 to 80 years-old. The project challenged conventions around the design of virtual humans; including aging and death to the design process.