Imagine Farewell Station is an interactive VR installation that merges generative AI, described footage techniques, and narrative VR to explore the intersection of memory, language, and image-making in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting. It invites participants to step into a time machine of the mind—a chamber where words are the only remnants of the past and images are reconstructed through language alone. 
Set in a speculative future where humanity has lost the capacity to remember through images, the experience positions the user as a traveler seeking to reconstruct a childhood memory and the face of a mysterious woman from their dreams. The user interacts with virtual paper notes—tearing them to reveal prompts, which then generate, AI-crafted imagery and soundscapes that form the evolving environment. Each image conjured from text brings new fragments of language, continuing a poetic cycle of association and recollection. 
The experience is designed as a science fiction art film that users inhabit rather than merely observe. It leverages a blend of AI-generated stills, stop-motion animation, hand gesture interaction, and immersive audio design. At its core is the concept of “Described Footage”: using written descriptions of lost film frames (inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetée) as prompts to reimagine them through machine learning algorithms. This approach challenges the reliability of both language and memory, creating a deliberately unstable and uncanny reconstruction of the past.