What is Creativity in vitro?
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An AI trained not on your texts, but on your thoughts.
Creativity in vitro is a brain-to-image experiment where imagination becomes visible — without ever being written or spoken.
Curious? Here’s a bit more:
Creativity in vitro is an experimental artistic research project by Lina Lopes and Eduardo Padilha that explores how imagination can be captured directly from brainwaves.
In Phase 1, we use EEG sensors and machine learning to translate pure thought into visual images — bypassing language entirely. Using EEG sensors and machine learning, we’re building an interface where inner thoughts—like “red”, “square”, or “fluid”—can be translated into images, without the need for language.
In Phase 2, we will apply this trained model to neural organoids cultivated from the artist’s own cells. In its next phase, the project speculates on the possibility of lab-grown neurons from an artist generating visual ideas on their own.
What happens when imagination is transferred to a mini-brain in a Petri dish?
Got time? Want to dive deeper?
Watch the short film below. It explains the project, the phases, the madness, and the living minds behind it.
Who is this for?
- Scientists looking for strange collaborations
- Artists seeking impossible questions
- Grantmakers funding the future
- Poets disguised as engineers
- You
This is radical imagination under the microscope. AI is not just a tool here — it’s our co-pilot in radical cognition.