The Carry Root

Realized 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 community of core contributors—women navigating intergenerational displacement and the complex work of belonging. Describing herself as a “StoryCatcher,” Carry offers personal narratives via headphones while inviting guests to share their experiences. Her role recognizes our impulse to build technologies of connection, even as it confronts the entrenched systems of extraction that shape much of AI’s development.

Viewers engage the work within a ritualized space where ancient and contemporary technologies converge. A wooden colonnade marks a symbolic threshold between the present gathering and virtual topographies. It offers a moment of rest, asking viewers to sit with what is fragile, unfinished, and still unfolding.

Together, the installations and creative engagement press gently against this historic moment marked by accelerating technological change and deepening social disconnection.