“Between This and That is It” is an interactive installation using an AI-enhanced 1980s typewriter. Visitors input two words, and the system generates a “middle” word, creating a collaborative techno-poetic act. The work explores AI bias, semantic space, and societal polarization, symbolizing the search for consensus and highlighting shared human-machine agency in constructing meaning across cultural and political contexts.

The project was realized with support from III.Lab, funded by AIT–Austrian Institute of Technology, the University of Salzburg, Land Salzburg (grant 20102/F2300416-KZP), and the Schmiede Hallein festival and participating smiths