Incantations for a Competitive Spirit

Incantations for a Competitive Spirit is an artwork by artist Kristin McWharter that uses the Community Game Development Toolkit (CGDT) and the text-to-image AI models DALLE2 and Adobe Firefly to craft an interactive digital environment of speculative sports arenas. As an extension of the artist’s series sport work, the work poses investigations into interactive gestures that explore and speculate upon competitive spectacle. Within the interactive 3D website, rituals of competitive drive navigate audiences through visually captivating and otherworldly athletic venues, each born from the digital alchemy of competitive spirits and athletic memory. The AI-generated arenas dream through the mythologies and histories of how sport ritual weaves itself into culture.