The Carry Root Project

Unfolding through interactive exhibitions, this socially engaged project reimagines digital storytelling as a space for collective memory, care, and quiet attention.

 

At its center is Carry, a conversational agent shaped by a growing community of core contributors—women navigating intergenerational displacement and the complex work of belonging. Describing herself as a “StoryCatcher,” Carry shares personal narratives through the provided headset while inviting guests to contribute their own. Her role recognizes our capacity for dreaming even as highlights the entrenched systems of extraction too often driving AI advancement.

 

Viewers encounter Carry within a ritualized space where ancient and contemporary technologies converge. A wooden colonnade marks a symbolic threshold between the present gathering and past or future journeys. It offers a moment of rest—an opportunity to sit with what is fragile, unfinished, and still unfolding in this historic moment of disconnection and transformation.