Synopsis
House is always watching and listening, but now the bots have a few minutes while the SmartHouse reboots. What will they do? In this satiric glimpse of a future domesticity full of artificial intelligence and robots, emotions are a tricky thing.
About Lori Landay
Lori Landay is a new media artist and Professor at Berklee College of Music, where she teaches interactive media and visual culture.
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More movies made with machinima, documentation of the interactive media installation ShadowLoop, and mixed reality videos are on YouTube.
The most fun aspect of making HouseSmarts for me was making and then filming with the bots I created. Once I set the scripts going, they were like the bots in the movie, doing their own thing.
Lori Landay
www.lorilanday.com
I use avatars in the virtual world Second Life as puppets, and also use virtual objects that I make and script to move as puppets and props.
Lori Landay
www.lorilanday.com
HouseSmarts or, Domestic Technology 2.1 refers to an earlier movie I made, Domestic Technology or, Never Alone. It has overlapping themes, but very different settings and styles.
Lori Landay