
Quick Pic: Phantom of the Opera Pumpkin.Quick Pic: Desolation of Smaug Pumpkins.But as part of a plan to mask some illegal activity on-board the space station, SHODAN’s morals module is bypassed and SHODAN slowly evolves into a system that no longer views humans as key to activity on the station. In the game System Shock, SHODAN begins as computer system that helps run a space station. SHODAN is one of the first video game characters that has AI central to its character. Measuring prior to a visit to the hardware store SHODAN Exhibit Label Laser cutting acrylic looks like a hot knife through butter Looks like I ended up with a good color choice after all. Kenny, one of the staff members at TheShop that I regularly bug ask for construction tips, pointed out, “Purple and green are the colors of poison”.

It was just happenstance that I ended up using green and purple acrylic.

I laser-etched a piece of green-edge acrylic to highlight the pixels in the game art and cut a purple acrylic insert to hold the art in place. I didn't get a chance to play the game when it first came out but I did play the game Portal which has a character that was no doubt influenced by SHODAN's design.įor this piece, I decided to go with a frame to enhance the pixelated view of one of SHODAN's emails. One of the key characters in the game System Shock (1994) is an AI system call SHODAN that evolves to be sinister. In addition to many helpful content suggestions, one of the things that she pointed out that I had overlooked all along was the presentation of AI in video games. Yaszek offered some time and we setup a meeting to chat. She provided a lot of insight on the show and so I just had to reach out to ask for some advice.ĭr.

Cameron interviewed Lisa Yaszek, a Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. While I was in the early stages of working on the exhibit design, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series had an episode about artificial intelligence called Intelligent Machines.
