Conference Presentation: Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, 2026
Algorithmic Mirrors
In this talk, I described my exhibition-based research into creative cognition. Drawing on theories of self-development through lived experience, cultural background, and interpretive agency, I framed developing self-knowledge as a creative process. I explored how digital reflections of the self might leverage misalignment to provoke internal frustration and friction, generating curiosity about one’s own body and environment.
I then described the exhibition Digital Twin, which engaged algorithmic systems as creative, reflective interfaces. I argued that exhibition viewers, as well as designers, can be supported in engaging with installations as active participants.
This presentation was part of a broader research process on Digital Twins, and also contributes to ongoing research on how exhibition spaces can focus on viewers’ own critical and creative capacities.
I then described the exhibition Digital Twin, which engaged algorithmic systems as creative, reflective interfaces. I argued that exhibition viewers, as well as designers, can be supported in engaging with installations as active participants.
This presentation was part of a broader research process on Digital Twins, and also contributes to ongoing research on how exhibition spaces can focus on viewers’ own critical and creative capacities.
