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NarraStone: Reimagining the Stone Stele as an AI-Era Apparatus of Synthetic Memory

T. Liu, S. Zhang, H. Qu, H. Zhou

SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Art Papers (to appear), 2026

NarraStone: Reimagining the Stone Stele as an AI-Era Apparatus of Synthetic Memory

Abstract

NarraStone reimagines the stone stele through human–AI collaboration. Participants use a tangible, twistable cube to form Chinese characters that seed emergent narratives, which are visualized as projected calligraphic inscriptions. The work explores how collective interaction and generative AI can shape cultural memory and shared storytelling.

co-creationcultural-heritage

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Liu2026NarraStone,
  author    = {Liu, Tiancheng and Zhang, Shumeng and Qu, Hanyu and Zhou, Hanqin},
  title     = {NarraStone: Reimagining the Stone Stele as an {AI}-Era Apparatus of Synthetic Memory},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Art Papers},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Accepted; to appear}
}