Enterprise AI Analysis

By connecting the 'Erika' typewriter to a large language model, the project creates a conversation machine where AI's output emerges with a deliberate delay, rhythm, and mechanical echo. This process makes AI's workings tangible and audible, fostering experiential materiality and deliberate slowness in an era of 'accelerated digital abstraction.' The friction and physical trace of ink on paper highlight the value of presence and attention over seamless efficiency, exposing AI's mechanisms to critical inquiry.

The project uses technostalgia not as a sentimental retreat, but as a critical tool. By resurrecting and repurposing outdated technologies like the Erika typewriter, it creates 'zombie media' that haunt the present with unresolved tensions. This process serves as a form of defamiliarization, making contemporary AI seem strange and open to inquiry. It creates temporal dissonance, challenging linear views of progress and inviting users to question 'what happens when machines are taken out of context' and made to perform outside their original design.

Erika functions as both an interface and an interruption, foregrounding the value of reflection, irony, and cultural memory. This approach advocates for a historicist design sensibility that challenges presentism and reorients human-machine interaction toward alternative, perceived futures. By embedding AI in slow, noisy, obsolete devices, the project reframes AI not as a mere tool but as a conversation and a provocation, rediscovering what remains worth carrying forward in the next decade of 'things'.