Mag Gingrich, Oliver ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-0032 (2025) Zeitgeist: decolonising AI - an interactive AI-based XR experience of flow mental states. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	AI, decolonisation, computational creativity
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Design and Creative Industries
Related URLs:	Organisation https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/50010/
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2025 15:29
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/51825

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