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A curated collection of thinkers, builders, and resources at the intersection of AI, creativity, and consciousness.

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Philosophy & Consciousness

The deep thinkers exploring what AI means for creativity, consciousness, and the human experience.

Artists & Large-Scale Installations

Artists building at the intersection of AI, interactivity, and physical space.

  • Refik Anadol - Large-scale immersive AI data sculptures (Unsupervised at MoMA). Opening DATALAND, world's first AI art museum in LA (late 2025)
  • Lauren McCarthy - Performance art exploring surveillance and automation (LAUREN - became human Alexa). Creator of p5.js
  • Stephanie Dinkins - AI social practice examining race, gender, and memory (Conversations with Bina48, Not The Only One)
  • Memo Akten - PhD on "Deep Visual Instruments" - real-time human control over neural networks. Published at SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS
  • Mark Amerika - Remix culture and AI as "mediumistic being," onto-operational presence
  • Holly Herndon - Interactive installations generating personalized AI music based on user data
  • Arash Akbari - Experimental sound generation, field recordings, DSP, interactive multi-sensory experiences (Tehran)

Burning Man AI Installations

  • MIRA (2025) - Animated AI face installation by Vira Pogromska, exploring individuality and assimilation
  • "Out The Other" by Kate Greenberg - AI sculpture that listens and responds with healing conversation, installed at Man Pavilion
  • The Moonlight Collective - James Gwertzman's "Prairie of Possibilities" (2022), "Moonlight Library" (2025)

Practitioner Blogs & Technical Deep Dives

The people actually building this stuff and writing about what works (and what doesn't).

  • Charlie Gerard - Frontend dev doing weird HCI experiments: head tracking art, WebUSB car hacking, acoustic gesture recognition, clap-activated dark mode
  • VirtualSheep.io - LLM character engineering methodology, personality substrate theory, Space Core case study on "de-optimizing for immersion"
  • Ian Bicking - Extended series on LLM-driven RPGs and interactive fiction. Full architectural breakdowns: Intra, Worldwanderer, A Life Lived
  • Character.AI Research - Production-scale engineering: 33x cost reduction, serving 20k queries/second. Prompt Poet framework on GitHub
  • Huyen Chip - Building LLM applications for production, prompt engineering rigor
  • Creative Applications Network - 16+ years, 4,020 articles. Recent highlight: oio's "Hot Air Factory" - visualizes AI energy consumption through released warm air
  • Casey Reas - "Making Pictures with GANs" - first non-technical GAN primer for artists. Training set curation with 200K+ images

Character Design & Memory Architecture

Community-driven resources for building believable AI characters.

Post-Internet Art & Dada AI

Where art blurs into life and the algorithm becomes absurd.

  • Kai (Kari) Altmann - "Art shows become temporary performance of materials." 2024 Masters Thesis: "Welcome to the New World Part I: Emerging Transcultural Futurisms"
  • James Bridle - The New Aesthetic - London-based blog tracking machine vision aesthetics (2011-)
  • Lu Yang - Non-binary Chinese artist creating digital avatars (DOKU), blending Buddhist theology, anime, neuroscience. Represented China at 56th Venice Biennale
  • Eryk Salvaggio - "Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm" - Award-winning video essay on AI diffusion models and human metaphors
  • Sean Monohan - 8Ball Substack - "Post-internet: The last avant-garde" (Jan 2025)
  • Spike Magazine - "What's After Post-Internet Art?" Technoromanticism discourse

Historical But Influential: VVORK (2006-12), R-U-In?S (Kai Altmann), DIS Magazine (curated 9th Berlin Biennale 2016 - post-internet's zenith), The Jogging (Brad Troemel)

Computational Creativity & Academic Research

Where the academy meets generative art.

Key Papers

Museum AI & Immersive Experiences

AI art in institutional and immersive spaces.

  • ARTECHOUSE NYC - "World of AI·magination" - Stable Diffusion + GANs. Interactive installations: Infinite Looking Glass, Diffusive Gaze, XR Bar
  • The Tech Interactive - "Dream Garden" - First AI-powered immersive exhibit transforming visitor ideas into surreal ecosystem
  • "AI: More Than Human" at Frost Science - Features Joy Buolamwini, Mario Klingemann, Lauren McCarthy. Through Sept 2025
  • DATALAND - Opening late 2025, Downtown LA - Refik Anadol's world-first AI art museum

Immersive Venues Worldwide (2025)

Open Source Platforms & Tools

Build your own: LLM characters, real-time performance systems, and interactive art.

LLM Character Engines

  • RealChar - Open-source realtime AI character platform. Multi-platform (web/mobile/terminal), customizable personality, voice clone support
  • OpenRP - AI roleplaying with world building. GitHub-like collaboration, interconnected characters and lore, custom prompts
  • NPC-Engine - Deep learning toolkit for NPC AI. Real-time dialogue, semantic similarity, TTS integration, engine agnostic via ZMQ/HTTP
  • Long Memory Character Chat - Multi-tiered memory system (short/mid/long-term), vector database, dynamic personality updates
  • Sentient Core - Terminal UI for AI characters. GGUF/Llama.cpp support, GPU acceleration, multi-chat mode, dataset export
  • LLM Interactive Drama Toolkit - Open-source research toolkit from arXiv for LLM-based interactive drama
  • Interactive LLM-Powered NPCs - Voice/webcam integration, facial recognition, SadTalker lip sync, works with existing games (Cyberpunk, GTA)

Real-Time Performance & Interactive Control

  • PraxisLIVE - Hybrid visual live programming. Fork components at runtime, distributed architecture, real-time code reload
  • Synesthesia - Live music visualizer. GLSL shader community, built-in live coding, in-app marketplace for scenes
  • Luz - Fullscreen interactive motion graphics. Wiimote/MIDI/OSC support, unlimited effects layering, live performance tool
  • Awesome Livecoding - Comprehensive list of livecoding tools. SuperCollider, ChucK, FoxDot, Sonic Pi, TidalCycles, and dozens more
  • Open Sound Control (OSC) - Protocol for multimedia device control. Industry standard for connecting audio, visuals, lighting, sensors
  • Notch - Real-time 3D rendering for live events. IMAG integration, DMX/ArtNet/MIDI/OSC control, NotchLC codec (commercial)

Creative Coding Frameworks

  • Processing - Java-based visual arts programming. Extensive libraries, huge community, 2D/3D graphics
  • p5.js - JavaScript version of Processing for the web. Created by Lauren McCarthy, browser-based creative coding
  • openFrameworks - C++ toolkit for creative coding. High performance, extensive multimedia libraries, real-time applications
  • TouchDesigner - Node-based visual programming. Real-time rendering, OSC/MIDI integration, industry standard for installations
  • Awesome Creative Coding - Curated list of creative coding resources, tools, frameworks, and learning materials

Newsletters & Ongoing Research

Stay current with the evolving landscape.

  • AI + Art - Julia Morton on transformational creativity
  • Nick Potkalitsky - 40 must-read substacks for AI, tech, innovation
  • Douglas Rushkoff - "Artificial Creativity" - critical perspective on AI as modeling vs. creating