# A wall that listens: the local-LLM pipeline behind an AI party in Vilnius > Source: > Published: 2026-09-27 12:35:51+00:00 This is a 78-second first test of the **1st Dynamic AI Party**, being built at the ZOLAK Micro Art Residence in Vilnius. The idea is simple to say and fiddly to build: the wall of the room is a projection, and what is on it is decided, live, by a language model that is watching and listening to the people in front of it. Watch on YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7qU4OlB3CtU](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7qU4OlB3CtU) ## What it is An AI-driven light wall that reacts to the room. You move, it sees; you speak, it listens; then it answers on the wall. In the footage, words people say in the room (“basically”, “crazy”, “great”) come back as large projected type a moment later, and someone tests whether raising their hands makes the wall brighter. The on-screen label is honest about the state of it: *real output, first test, unedited*, version “AI-LOOP v0.1”. ## How it works Everything runs on one local rig, and each piece of hardware has one job: - **Input** — CCTV cameras and Shure SM58 microphones cover the whole room, live. - **Eyes** — a Coral Edge TPU (4 TOPS) runs person and motion detection on every camera feed: who is there and who is moving. - **Ears** — an RTX ADA 2000 (16 GB VRAM) does live speech-to-text on every mic. - **Brain** — an RTX 3090 (24 GB VRAM) runs a local LLM that takes what was seen and heard and decides what the wall says and shows next. - **Hands** — a 32-core CPU decodes all the streams, composites the next frame and feeds the projector. - **Output** — a laser projector puts it on the wall, where you see it instantly. That makes it a closed loop rather than a visualiser: you react, the wall reacts, you react again. The interesting engineering is in the split. Detection lives on a tiny accelerator, transcription on a mid-range card, and the big card is left free for the model that makes the decision, so no single stage has to do everything at party latency. ## Why it is interesting Most “AI art” at events is pre-rendered or prompted by one operator at a laptop. Here the prompt is the room itself: the crowd’s movement and speech are the input, and the model runs locally on hardware in the building, which is what makes a live loop with every camera and every mic practical at all. ## Come try it ZOLAK Micro Art Residence, Vytenio g. 50D, Vilnius, 3rd floor (enter via the old ELFA factory, Panerių g. 37). The date is still to be announced.