About this Event
Hosted by the Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments, supported by the Centre for Spatial and Digital Ecologies
Zeitgeist is an interactive AI-based XR experience of Flow mental states. Flow - a state of creativity, peak performance & wellbeing - is a concept shared among artists, coders & athletes - in fact, everyone can experience Flow. Zeitgeist explores the probability of getting into Flow, higher creativity, peak performance & wellbeing through participatory art engagements. Using deep-learning algorithms and EEG wearables that measure your brain activity, participants interact with each other to experience 'Flow':
Join researchers, artists and community members for a lively exploration of AI, liveness, and creativity. Performed by artists and researchers Dr Shama Rahman and Dr Oliver Gingrich this participatory performance will invite you to experience Flow mental states in real-time. Embedded into a discourse around bias in AI, the performance will be framed by discussion on the collective effort to de-colonise AI.
Co-create a sonic and visual performance that challenges Western norms of sound and music making—using new performance tech by NeuroCreate that combines physiological data, AI and real-time participation to reveal the status quo in creative AI and probe the future of liveness.
The event features performances by the artists and real-time integration of AI-based interpretation of Flow mental states. You’ll leave with new insights into possibilities of Creative AI tools and a greater awareness of the future of AI and human creativity, new multicultural approaches to collaboration, and experience analysing visual sound patterns and testing the boundaries between sound, visual interpretation of human creativity through AI.
This is a community event bridging arts, humanities, and STEM, open to the curious public and seasoned practitioners. The participatory performance forms part of the Being Human Festival, led by the University of London's School of Advanced Study.
This event starts at 18:30, with doors opening at 18:00.
https://www.bathwaytheatre.co.uk/
About us | Being Human Festival
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Oliver Gingrich
Oliver Gingrich is an artist, curator and Creative Director at NeuroCreate. Olive's practice centres around holographic projection, real-time animation and participatory art. Olive's research centres around immersive tech, and creative health, specifically in the context of the AHRC-funded p_ART_icipate!-research project on digital creative health. Olive leads the BA (Hons) Animation programme at School of Design & Creative Industries at the University of Greenwich, London.
www.participateresearch.co.uk
www.olivergingrich.com
Shama Rahman
Shama Rahman is an artist, scientist and founder of NeuroCreate. Shama uses her expertise in AI and neuroscience to design tools for enhanced creativity. Shama leads the AHRC Zeitgeist project on creative health and is an Innovation Fellow at University of Edinburgh. She has a background in art/science direction (Jugular Productions) and boundary-pushing artistic endeavors (first Sitarist in Antarctica).
https://www.instagram.com/shamarahman
https://www.instagram.com/neurocreate
www.neurocreate.co.uk
Being Human
Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. A celebration of humanities research through public engagement, it is led by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the UK’s national centre for the pursuit, support and promotion of research in the humanities. The festival works in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy to support humanities public engagement across the UK.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bathway Theatre, University of Greenwich, Bathway, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 6.13
