Or just look like one.
Tour eight countries. Watch a commercial. Collect your AI passport stamp. Then find out what's actually real — starting with your own neighborhood.
A participatory installation using generative AI, NFC passports, and a live gallery screen. No app download. Bring your phone.
A Media Lab Midwest photographer-actor greets you at the entry station — passport control reimagined as a party. They take your portrait, just like a real passport photo.
Tap the NFC tag. Your photo loads into a secure digital passport on your own phone. Your journey begins.
No app · No login · Bring your phone
At each station, tap the country's NFC flag. A real corporate commercial plays in the country's language while PrismaLive composites you into the scene. When the commercial ends, your passport stamp arrives.
Every stamp is yours to keep — a beautiful AI-generated souvenir of the world tour you were sold.
Each station is a physical NFC tag. Tap with your phone — a real corporate commercial plays in the country's language with English subtitles while PrismaLive renders your transformation. When it ends, your stamp arrives.
Every AI transformation displays in real time on a large central screen — a constantly updating gallery of Grand Rapids residents placed inside the world.
Visible from beyond the installation walls, the screen draws in new visitors through the spectacle of others being transformed. The piece recruits itself.
Powered by PrismaLive · Aaron SundmanYou just toured eight countries. You were placed inside a cherry blossom festival, a Bollywood market, the Eiffel Tower at night. It was beautiful. It was seamless.
It was also a Toyota commercial. An L'Oréal commercial. A Samsung commercial. Each one a few seconds of beautiful imagery constructed to make you feel something about a place without knowing anything real about it.
The Local Passport is waiting.
Five categories. Twenty local businesses. Each one has an NFC stamp to collect. Complete any ten to earn your Grand Rapids Local Citizen prize. Go at your own pace — you have all 17 days of ArtPrize.
Each participating business has an NFC tag displayed in their window or at their counter. Tap it with the same phone you used for your global passport. Your local stamp is added automatically — no purchase required.
Complete any ten local stamps across all five categories and earn your Grand Rapids Local Citizen. Prize details announced in partnership with participating businesses — check back closer to ArtPrize 2026.
Any 10 stamps · Any 5 categories · Complete at your own pace during ArtPrize 2026 · September 17–October 3
Ritsu Katsumata and Aaron Sundman form a Grand Rapids-based creative technology collaborative whose work sits at the intersection of generative AI, human experience design, and civic engagement.
Co-Founder · Chief Experience OfficerJapanese-American sound artist and experience designer. Carnegie Hall to CBGB's — scoring silent films, building immersive installations, designing human-centered digital experiences across Dentsu, Wieden+Kennedy, Cornell University, and Ford Motor Company.
Co-Founder · Chief Technology OfficerTechnology evangelist with 30 years in enterprise digital innovation. RFID Business Development Leader at CCL eAgile. Creator of PrismaLive AI platform.