Non-human beings such as phoenixes, omens and druids interact with artificial intelligences to co-create an alter-mythology that helps navigate the borderlines between mystical experience and AI hallucination. Testing the boundaries of latent space and the universe that escapes consciousness, artist collective CROSSLUCID and writer Orion Facey explored ineffable languages to describe multispecies affect. In this liminal space, time, technology and the future unfold otherwise.

Red the Ocean Around U proposes a non-linear narrative through an interactive and generative digital environment. The visitors are invited to participate on a journey through those oneiric landscapes, which will lead them to multiple endings. No pathway is the same. The story grows with their interactions. The visitor becomes U, a character who has to decide whether to adopt or return two stolen creatures. U is guided by the questions of Claude, an otherworldly character, itself a Large Language Model (LLM).

The authors reverse the traditional interaction with AI: the users are the ones who are left with Claude's questions. These queries are generated by LLMs trained on Facey's texts and the voice is produced using a model that fuses the voice of the artists and the author. Meanwhile, the AIs are also producing a dynamic space evolving in relation to different data points coming from the visitors, like the amount of people in the same location of the journey or their specific responses and their data sweat. These processes provoke an elastic balance that distributes agency between participants and non-human entities. Through these alchemical relations, Red the Ocean Around U aims to break the solidification of preconceived conditions to free the human and non-human imagination.