Work
TAC-2112
Maker Temporal Assistance Communicator · Work date 2023-11-30 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
I made an AI powered interactive fiction payphone called TAC-2112 that inserts the caller into an alternate reality where they are attempting to save the future. In the year 2112 there has been a cataclysm that breaks all digital products. People in the future have sent a message back to you using the only medium possible - an analog payphone.
Source. No published description found.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
The work is delivered through an analog payphone handset, which is not headphones.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The caller speaks with the payphone; nothing in the description requires relocation for the fiction to progress.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The maker states the work is a payphone that inserts the caller into the fiction.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificunknown?
The work is embodied in a physical payphone but the maker names no location, so whether a site is required is undetermined.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The fiction is a 2112 cataclysm with no documented past of a real place referenced.
- Created for an urban environmentunknown?
A public payphone may or may not presuppose urban surroundings and the maker does not say.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Created as an artwork other than theateryesM
The maker's own words call it 'AI powered interactive fiction', a literary and game-design framing rather than a theatrical one.
- Intended to be understood as theaternoI
The maker uses only 'caller' and 'interactive fiction', with no theatrical vocabulary anywhere.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The maker does not say whether the caller's surroundings figure in the work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesI
An AI-powered interactive fiction that inserts the caller into an attempt to save the future requires the caller to respond.
- Has live performers other than the participantsnoP
The maker states the work is AI powered, so no human performs during the call.
- Involves game playunknown?
'Attempting to save the future' suggests an objective but no rules or resolution state are established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No object other than the payphone itself is mentioned.
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