Follow their curiosity.
A whale comes up in a story. A surprising fact becomes the beginning of your child’s next question.
The Chandelier · Product concept
The Chandelier
Living art.
Ambient intelligence.
Three equal cubes around one central stem. Warm metal, softly diffused light and artwork that keeps unfolding.
Create as
you speak.
Tell your children about the barn you grew up in. Watch it take shape as you talk. ETHEREA turns your words into living art, in real time.And as you listen.An audiobook at bedtime. A favorite podcast. Music, radio—even a David Attenborough documentary. Turn what you love listening to into living art.Play from the built-in library or the devices you already use.
AirPlay
A story, shared
A childhood memory becomes something new.
Illustrated home experience · Synthesized voices
Watch live visual radio ↗It can join the
conversation, too.
Ask a question. Or create a cue: tell it when to join in, and what to offer.
You ask
“When we mention a new animal, share a fact and invite us to explore it.”
A soft chime announces its voice. Purple edges glow while it speaks.
A child
“I wish we could see an octopus.”
Illustrated experiences · Synthesized voices
How it joins in
The same signals work on the Chandelier and Lamp. It can also respond with light alone.
An offer of help when you’re searching for an answer.
Set an instruction ahead of time, change it, or pause it. Conversation cues can get things wrong; you can correct or dismiss them.
Two friends remembering a painting.
Custom cues are running on our system today; these scenes illustrate possible interactions. Connected services and the finished home installation are still in development. This page does not listen to you.
New ways to learn.
New ways to be heard.
Find the words.
In speech therapy, an image becomes a shared prompt to describe, name and explore.
See what you mean.
In a therapy session, turn a memory into a landscape you can explore together.
Our speech-visualization work has been explored with Dr. Steven Zeiler’s stroke recovery team at Johns Hopkins for people with aphasia. About the lab ↗
Learning and care applications are being explored. Clinical benefits have not been established.
Shaped by two years
of real conversations.
We’ve developed the living-art technology behind the Chandelier in front of people—at Burning Man, in a New York home, on stage and at School. Their conversations, curiosity and reactions inform the experience we’re bringing to your home.
From the playa
to your place.
The first Chandelier, built in our studio and brought to life at Burning Man.
Built in the studio.
Alive on the playa.
Three illuminated cubes above a bed on an art car. We built the first Chandelier, took it into the desert and watched the idea become a shared experience.
From the first rendering to the working sculpture
Nouriel Roubini’s home
A permanent living-art installation across three floors of his New York home. The artwork becomes part of the architecture and the gatherings within it.
An existing ETHEREA installation. The Chandelier home system is the next chapter.
Watch the original recording ↗Words become a shared world.
A gala, a poem, a story. Watch ETHEREA bring living art to live gatherings.
Open the original film ↗
Ideas, shared at School.
At School in Brooklyn, ETHEREA visualized the two-day final Demo Day of the ten-week Shape Rotator accelerator.
The program brought together builders through IC3, Flashbots, the Convent and the Blockchain Builders Fund.
Selected projects and collaborators
Gala sponsor
Gala sponsor
Festival installation
Voice prototype
Visual technology
Video infrastructure
The Chandelier and its supporting home system · Product concept
One imagination.
Throughout your life.
A centerpiece for your time together. A little wonder in the next room. Living art to take with you.
The Chandelier
Where you come together.
Living art that follows the conversation. Answers and reminders, when you want them.
Explore the Chandelier
Three equal cubes, one central stem. Speech and music become art across their faces; softly glowing edges signal when it speaks.
See it come to life ↗
The Lamp
A little wonder. In any room.
The same living art and cues, in a single cube. Beside a bedtime story or your favorite chair.
Explore the Lamp
Connected to your home’s supercomputer, each Lamp extends the experience to another room. Add them as your space and family grow.
Explore the cues ↗The App
Make it yours.
Choose what plays. Shape how it looks. Decide when it speaks.
The Imagination Engine
The power behind it all.
Your family’s art, learning and everyday questions, on hardware you own. One computer for your Chandelier, Lamps, phone and laptop.
Explore the supercomputer
Keep it on display or plan a suitable space behind the scenes. The same network connects the computer to the places you use it.
Living with a supercomputer ↗The home collection · Hardware concepts and the working iPhone app
Living with
a supercomputer.
More possibility for your family.
More control over what stays private.
Why put a supercomputer in your home?
Local AI models are becoming more capable at reasoning, conversation and using tools. More of the work you currently send to a remote AI service can happen on hardware you own—including work involving sensitive family information. Your home gains new possibilities while you choose the models, memory and connections.
What could it help my family do?
Turn a family story into living art. Help make sense of household spending. Practice a new language with your children. Find a film in your media library and bring the music, screen and lights together for movie night.
We’re building toward these experiences with local models and compatible home systems: useful intelligence that gives you more to do and share together.
What stays private?
Local models can process your family’s conversations and documents at home. Outside services are separate choices; you decide which can connect and what they receive.
Conversation memory lasts 30 minutes by default. We always ask before remembering something longer. Recording starts only after everyone present agrees.
How does it fit into my home?
One computer serves the Chandelier, Lamps, phone and laptop over your home network. Keep it on display or in a suitable equipment room. We plan the network, power, cooling and access around your space, drawing on our installation experience in Nouriel Roubini’s home.
As compatible models and software improve, you can add new capabilities and extend the experience to more rooms.
The home system is in development. Your demonstration and installation plan confirm the experiences, models, connected devices and privacy controls included in your setup.
Designed to
be with you.
Light on the outside.
A world of possibility within.Open the cube to explore the technology behind its presence.
The cube, from the inside out.
Select a component to explore the cube’s architecture.One quiet object.Drag to turn
Prototype foundation
A canvas on every side.
LED panels carry the living art around the cube. The working prototype already uses LED matrices and a local display controller.
The finished panel specification and enclosure are still being developed.
Inside the cube · Design visualization. Final components and placement are in development.
Listening, memory and privacy
30-minute memory. Longer only with your permission. Conversation context is retained for 30 minutes by default. We always ask before remembering something longer. Recording is a separate choice: we ask everyone present and start only after they agree.
The design includes a visible listening indicator, a way to pause listening, and a distinction between temporary conversation context and moments you choose to keep. If included, the camera would be off by default; a physical shutter and clear activation indicator are part of the design.
Speech and sensor processing are intended to stay local. Outside services and remote access need their own security and data-flow review. These controls are in development; your proposal will specify what stays in the home and what can leave it.
What we’re exploring
Microphones, audio output, contactless radar, depth sensing and environmental sensors would connect the cube to the room. Sensor windows, acoustic openings, cooling and service access must be resolved in the final enclosure.
Radar is being evaluated for breathing and heart-rate estimates, beginning with seated, relatively still participants. Movement, position and multiple people make reliable readings harder. The Lamp offers a starting point closer to a participant. These signals would not be treated as proof of an emotion.
Technology references: Infineon radar demonstration, ST depth sensing and Sensirion environmental sensing. These demonstrate component possibilities, not validated Chandelier capabilities.
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at School.
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What about updates and support?
Software updates, maintenance and hardware servicing will be specified in your proposal. First-edition timing and service commitments are not yet finalized.
What is working, and what is next?
Our existing work includes the residential living-art installation, Burning Man cube prototype and shared visualization at School. The finished home hardware, local AI, sensing and device access are in development. Your demonstration and proposal will establish the capabilities included in your installation.
See the existing work
ONE · School, Brooklyn · Concept rendering
From shared spaces to the place you call home.
Built as One
Imagined by General Semantics, Inc.,
a member of One Guild,
from The Old School in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.