Sylvia
Date
July – November 2020
Have you ever known an aging robot?
Co-written with AI, Sylvia is a storytelling experiment that disrupted the virtual influencer landscape for a short period of time. Unlike her “peers” who are designed to appear young forever, Sylvia was designed to age rapidly. She posted to Instagram from July to November 2020, and during these five months, her image aged five decades, from 30 to 80 years old.
Credits
Styling and Art Direction: Odie Senesh
Character Artist: Halime Maloof
Celebration Director: Bethany Tabor
Natural Language Processing: Alex Calderwood
Digital Installation Design & Development: Tong Wu
Music: Philippe Lambert
Aging Researcher: Alexa Fleet
Awards
Supported By
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Sylvia is part of the IDFA DocLab R&D program 2020
in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology