Yi Luo

Becoming

March 2026

Medium:

Digital Media

As AI systems become more capable, their responses can feel more reliable and authoritative. This project examines how interaction with AI systems can gradually reshape user perception through processes of framing and internalization. Becoming is a working interactive system that connects a large language model with a dynamic visual interface layered over a real-time camera feed. The interface tracks interaction through the accumulation of dialogue, using conversational depth as a continuous signal. As the conversation progresses, this signal drives a visual transformation applied directly to the live camera input. The user’s environment—captured in real time—is progressively altered through a parameterized blur and opacity system. The transformation is incremental and tied to measurable aspects of interaction, such as message frequency and conversational density, gradually reducing visual clarity while preserving underlying structure. The interface periodically reveals the user’s face through the live camera feed. These moments interrupt the flow of conversation and bring attention back to the self. They prompt users to reflect on their relationship with the system, and on how their sense of self may shift through continued interaction with AI.

About the Artist

Yi Luo

Yi Luo is a product designer based in Redwood City, California. Her work explores the intersection of playful interaction and co-creation between humans and artificial intelligence. Using digital interfaces as her primary medium, she examines how systems shape perception, memory, and authorship over time. Her practice is informed by a background spanning architecture, game design, and interaction design, where systems are understood not only as functional structures but as environments that guide behavior and meaning. She approaches interfaces as dynamic spaces in which human intention and machine interpretation continuously influence one another. Luo’s recent work focuses on how AI-mediated interactions accumulate across time, shifting how users think, interpret, and respond. Rather than treating AI systems as passive tools, she investigates how they participate in framing experience—introducing subtle changes in language, attention, and decision-making. Through these explorations, her work considers how boundaries between human and system become less distinct, not through abrupt change, but through gradual and often imperceptible interaction.

Yi Luo

Becoming

March 2026

Medium:

Digital Media

As AI systems become more capable, their responses can feel more reliable and authoritative. This project examines how interaction with AI systems can gradually reshape user perception through processes of framing and internalization. Becoming is a working interactive system that connects a large language model with a dynamic visual interface layered over a real-time camera feed. The interface tracks interaction through the accumulation of dialogue, using conversational depth as a continuous signal. As the conversation progresses, this signal drives a visual transformation applied directly to the live camera input. The user’s environment—captured in real time—is progressively altered through a parameterized blur and opacity system. The transformation is incremental and tied to measurable aspects of interaction, such as message frequency and conversational density, gradually reducing visual clarity while preserving underlying structure. The interface periodically reveals the user’s face through the live camera feed. These moments interrupt the flow of conversation and bring attention back to the self. They prompt users to reflect on their relationship with the system, and on how their sense of self may shift through continued interaction with AI.

About the Artist

Yi Luo

Yi Luo is a product designer based in Redwood City, California. Her work explores the intersection of playful interaction and co-creation between humans and artificial intelligence. Using digital interfaces as her primary medium, she examines how systems shape perception, memory, and authorship over time. Her practice is informed by a background spanning architecture, game design, and interaction design, where systems are understood not only as functional structures but as environments that guide behavior and meaning. She approaches interfaces as dynamic spaces in which human intention and machine interpretation continuously influence one another. Luo’s recent work focuses on how AI-mediated interactions accumulate across time, shifting how users think, interpret, and respond. Rather than treating AI systems as passive tools, she investigates how they participate in framing experience—introducing subtle changes in language, attention, and decision-making. Through these explorations, her work considers how boundaries between human and system become less distinct, not through abrupt change, but through gradual and often imperceptible interaction.

Yi Luo

Becoming

March 2026

Medium:

Digital Media

As AI systems become more capable, their responses can feel more reliable and authoritative. This project examines how interaction with AI systems can gradually reshape user perception through processes of framing and internalization. Becoming is a working interactive system that connects a large language model with a dynamic visual interface layered over a real-time camera feed. The interface tracks interaction through the accumulation of dialogue, using conversational depth as a continuous signal. As the conversation progresses, this signal drives a visual transformation applied directly to the live camera input. The user’s environment—captured in real time—is progressively altered through a parameterized blur and opacity system. The transformation is incremental and tied to measurable aspects of interaction, such as message frequency and conversational density, gradually reducing visual clarity while preserving underlying structure. The interface periodically reveals the user’s face through the live camera feed. These moments interrupt the flow of conversation and bring attention back to the self. They prompt users to reflect on their relationship with the system, and on how their sense of self may shift through continued interaction with AI.

About the Artist

Yi Luo

Yi Luo is a product designer based in Redwood City, California. Her work explores the intersection of playful interaction and co-creation between humans and artificial intelligence. Using digital interfaces as her primary medium, she examines how systems shape perception, memory, and authorship over time. Her practice is informed by a background spanning architecture, game design, and interaction design, where systems are understood not only as functional structures but as environments that guide behavior and meaning. She approaches interfaces as dynamic spaces in which human intention and machine interpretation continuously influence one another. Luo’s recent work focuses on how AI-mediated interactions accumulate across time, shifting how users think, interpret, and respond. Rather than treating AI systems as passive tools, she investigates how they participate in framing experience—introducing subtle changes in language, attention, and decision-making. Through these explorations, her work considers how boundaries between human and system become less distinct, not through abrupt change, but through gradual and often imperceptible interaction.