Every specimen of the cabinet, opened into its parts. The writing becomes legible under the hand.
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II.I
Creativity can be read as distance between ideas, a measure humans and machines now share.
A systematic comparison of semantic divergence in state-of-the-art language models and a dataset of 100,000 people.
Models can surpass average human performance on the Divergent Association Task and approach human creative writing, while falling short of highly creative people.
divergence · imagination · association · words · machines · human creativity
II.II
New ideas begin in perception, when an ambiguous world is allowed to mean more than one thing.
A framework relating creativity to perception, showing how sensory affordances, especially in ambiguous stimuli, contribute to the generation of novel ideas.
Pareidolia, seeing familiar patterns in noisy or ambiguous input, is placed as a key perceptual mechanism of idea generation.
ambiguity · perception · pareidolia · novelty · sensory flexibility · ideas
II.III
Seeing forms in noise is not an error but a sign of creativity, quickest in the most creative minds.
Participants identified as many recognisable forms as they could in cloud-like fractal images.
Pareidolic perceptions arose more often and more rapidly in highly creative individuals, and across a broader range of image contrasts and fractal dimensions.
clouds · faces in noise · fractals · ambiguity · recognition · creativity
II.IV
What we see in ambiguous images is partly imagined, and many viewers together map the shape of that imagination.
A collective neuroscience experiment on pareidolia, the tendency to perceive faces, animals, and figures in random or ambiguous patterns.
Participants look at images and report the forms they see, to study how image complexity shapes what a viewer can imagine.
faces · animals · figures · ambiguous images · collective vision · imagination
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III.I
A collection of images is a landscape of meaning, and a story is a path walked through it.
Arcana is a platform for exploring, searching, and generating narrative sequences inside the latent space of large image datasets.
Users move through 2D or 3D CLIP embeddings, search by prompt, visualise clusters, and assemble story-like image sequences.
wandering · curiosity · images · constellations · storytelling · latent space
III.II
Living signals already carry harmony, so the ratios that tune music can also describe a body or a forest.
A Python toolbox that blends neuroscience, music theory, and signal processing to extract harmonic structure from time series.
It quantifies resonance, harmonicity, and oscillatory relationships across EEG, ECG, EMG, environmental signals, and more, with spectral decomposition, harmonic ratio…
harmony · resonance · rhythm · tuning · oscillation · consonance · living signals
III.III
A symbol has no fixed meaning; it shifts with the text or sound it is heard in.
Delyrism is an interactive system for exploring how symbols change meaning under text or audio context.
Users upload symbol and descriptor datasets, choose an embedding backend such as Qwen3, CLAP, or AudioCLIP, explore sub-networks of meaning, and inspect how associations…
symbols · shifting meaning · ambiguity · archetypes · association · delirium
III.IV
A corpus has a collective imagination, and its recurring forms can be distilled and named as archetypes.
Egregore finds patterns and symbolic relationships in a corpus and distils them into archetypes.
Given images, PDFs, or text, it combines embedding-based clustering, CLIP semantic matching, and LLM refinement to turn raw material into named archetypes with evocative…
archetypes · patterns · distillation · collective symbols · naming · myth
III.V
Knowledge is structure drawn out of writing, and making it visible is a way of thinking.
Noesis turns scientific writing into structured insight.
You design schema-agnostic templates for what to extract from papers, Gemini synthesises the content, and each paper becomes a card in an exportable report.
knowledge · insight · synthesis · clarity · structure · maps of ideas
III.VI
Language is a landscape to move through with the body, where words fall by mood, colour and kinship of meaning.
RainWords is a creative writing interface where words fall like raindrops from semantic clouds.
It uses embeddings, colour-mood analysis, and etymological structure to surface word alternatives in real time.
rain · clouds · words · poetry · mood · colour · constellations of language
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IV.I
A brain state is a point in a space of symbols, and its trajectory can be heard, seen and read as a poem.
An adaptive brain-computer interface that integrates real-time EEG with generative AI to create immersive audiovisual poetic experiences.
Brain states are mapped to symbolic representations, and their trajectories through a multimodal symbolic latent space become audible and visible as generative music,…
brain states · symbols · poetry · music · immersion · reverie
IV.II
Plants have a voice once their signals become sound, and an opera made with them is a dialogue about loss and hope.
A research-creation project in which high school students co-create a mini-opera inspired by plant signals turned into musical soundscapes.
Students take part in the whole process, writing, music, and staging, and bring their concerns and hopes about the environment into the work.
plants · song · opera · youth · solastalgia · hope · beauty of nature
IV.III
Humans and ecosystems are kin, and identity is made at the borders where they meet and reshape one another.
An immersive artwork on the interdependence of humans and the natural world, made with neuroscientific tools, mathematical models, and digital art.
Inspired by ecotones, the zones where distinct ecosystems meet, it shows identities, perceptions, and environments continuously reshaping one another.
thresholds · kinship · ecosystems · metamorphosis · interdependence · borders
IV.IV
The harmonic ratios of brain and body rhythms are both a measure of experience and a material to compose with.
A neurophenomenological approach to creative biofeedback, published in Organised Sound in 2026.
harmony · brain rhythms · biofeedback · sleep · psychedelic states · inner experience
IV.V
Images and sounds made from one's own brain are mirrors, and playing with them is a way to know oneself.
A creative audiovisual neurofeedback system for exploring mental states.
Brain signals are extracted in real time and fed back as algorithmic music and generative visuals, images and sounds that act as mirrors of the self.
mirror of the self · mental states · sound · play · inner and outer worlds · subjectivity
IV.VI
Dreaming is collective and co-creative, a knowledge that brain signals, drawings and Lakota dream language can share.
An interactive bio-adaptive installation presented at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe, within an exhibition by Suzanne Kite.
Participants enter a shared dream space where their drawings, words, and brain activity shape the unfolding visual environment.
dreams · collective dreaming · drawings · Lakota dream language · landscape · emotions
IV.VII
Co-creation with a machine can be continuous, steered by the mind's own complexity rather than by prompts.
A system that brings real-time neurofeedback into generative AI, so co-creation becomes continuous rather than prompt by prompt.
EEG is monitored throughout and acts as a control signal for a visual generative model, using Lempel-Ziv complexity, a measure of signal diversity linked to mental…
cinema · complexity · mind · continuous co-creation · flow · visions
IV.VIII
A film can listen to each viewer, so one shared screen becomes many intimate soundtracks.
A bio-adaptive feature film whose soundtrack is shaped in real time by the brain signals of up to fifty viewers.
Each viewer wears bone-conduction headphones carrying a personal audio layer generated from their own neural activity.
cinema · audience · brains · soundtrack · intimacy · listening together
IV.IX
Attention is a sacred act, and a place answers those who are witnessed in it.
A bio-adaptive walk in the forest, created with RE-AK Technologies.
A wanderer moves freely through the woods wearing a light headset that streams their point of view with signals of emotion and attention.
forest · attention · being witnessed · spirit of place · faces in bark · mythology · the sacred
V.I
A place keeps its past in images and voices, and imagination is how a community carries its memory forward.
A graphic novel commissioned by the City of Val-des-Sources for its 125th anniversary.
It weaves generative AI, archival photographs, and residents' testimonies into a dreamlike narrative about the city's past and future.
memory · archives · testimony · dream · resilience · community · past and future
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V.II
Dream, faith and myth are ways of knowing, and the image is a portal to what cannot be seen.
A collection of graphic novels weaving surrealism, mythopoetics, and sacred narrative.
Each volume explores the liminal space between consciousness and dream, from the cyberphilosophical La Prison de Verre to the Dantesque visions of Pentimento and the…
dream · faith · soul · myth · surrealism · the sacred · liminality
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