This paper explores how a performance piece can enact and embody conceptual ideas to illuminate what truly matters in the experience of being together. By combining linguistic expression with performative embodiment, the work begins to articulate a new poetics of togetherness—one that offers a scaffold for discourse in psychology and technologically mediated human interactions, while also reshaping how we imagine future relations with Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI).
Central to this investigation is the development and use of a novel video-conferencing system, NUNA, designed in a teleprompter style to enable natural eye contact and mutual regulation during remote interactions. The system was used in a performance titled When I Becomes We, in which performers and participants engaged through NUNA to explore different kinds of presence and a shared sense of togetherness, what we call “interpresence”. This approach expands the idea of presence beyond information exchange and task performance, instead offering an embodied experience of togetherness and opening up to other aesthetics of being together.
The paper argues that the enacted performance within an interdisciplinary research setting contributed to a reframing of fundamental questions in psychology and human-technology interaction. A central outcome is the concept of interpresence, which is proposed as a key framework. Interpresence is situated as shaping how we imagine futures with ASI. Unlike dominant narratives that tend to abstract or disembody human agency, interpresence offers a calm, relational scaffold at the centre of the AI storm in which the human remains actively and meaningfully in the loop.