GROUPTHINK - The Internet of Neurons is coming.
What happens when we're all connected?
Groupthink invites Ars Electronica visitors to create art with their hearts. Ordinary webcams can detect heartbeats, and the Groupthink audience will direct sitarist Shama Rahman and guitarist Mick Grierson by creating a visual score from their collective heartbeat.
Inspired by paintings of nature in the National Gallery, the visual score branches into a pulsating environment that engulfs the performers in visions of entanglement and shared agency. Keep an eye out for visual treats that link the future of art with its past.
No identifying information will be gathered or stored during the production of Groupthink.
Performance times
Saturday 11 September
4-4.30pm BST / 5-5.30pm CET
5-5.30pm BST / 6-6.30pm CET
About GROUPTHINK
Groupthink is a collaborative artwork conceived by National Gallery X co-director Ali Hossaini. The artistic team is in dual residency at National Gallery X and the UKRI TAS Hub, and its aim is to provoke discussion and research into the implications of a neurally connected society.
The evolution of the project
In 2021 National Gallery X launched The AI Gallery. Conceived as the world's first 'cultural exchange programme with the realm of AI', the online exhibition serves as a focal point for research, debate and direct experience of artworks created by intelligent / autonomous systems. Team members share a common interest in exploring the expressive potential of AI and the social implications of machines participating in activities once thought exclusively human.
Groupthink is part of the AI Gallery, the world's first 'cultural exchange programme' with the realm of autonomous machines.
Team: Ali Hossaini, Alain Renaud, Diego Sempreboni, Joshua Murr, Luca Viganò, Mick Grierson, Olive Gingrich, Sergey Drozdov and Shama Rahman.
Groupthink is a collaborative artwork conceived by National Gallery X co-director Ali Hossaini. The artistic team is in dual residency at National Gallery X and the UKRI TAS Hub, and its aim is to provoke discussion and research into the implications of a neurally connected society.
The evolution of the project
In 2021 National Gallery X launched The AI Gallery. Conceived as the world's first 'cultural exchange programme with the realm of AI', the online exhibition serves as a focal point for research, debate and direct experience of artworks created by intelligent / autonomous systems. Team members share a common interest in exploring the expressive potential of AI and the social implications of machines participating in activities once thought exclusively human.
Groupthink is part of the AI Gallery, the world's first 'cultural exchange programme' with the realm of autonomous machines.
Team: Ali Hossaini, Alain Renaud, Diego Sempreboni, Joshua Murr, Luca Viganò, Mick Grierson, Olive Gingrich, Sergey Drozdov and Shama Rahman.